Somebody asked me offline what a moderator does. Some information is here: http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#mail-moderate
But I thought I'd try to fill in some context. ASF mail lists receive an astonishing amount of spam daily. Most of it gets filtered out by SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.apache.org/ ) but some spam slips by and attempts to get posted to the various lists. One of the features of the way the derby lists were set up is posts only automatically make it to the list if -- 1) the poster is subscribed to the list 2) the first post by a new subscriber has been accepted When you sign up to be a moderator, moderation requests get sent to the email address you specified. The request includes several ways to reply to accept or reject the post. The moderator looks at a moderation request, and: 1) If it's obviously spam, simply delete it. The moderation request includes a "reject" address, but don't even bother. After a week without any response, the post will automatically be rejected. 2) If it's a good post, respond to the moderation request to 'accept' that post. If you do a "reply all", this will also include the 'allow' address, which will let through future posts by this subscriber. Moderators also get contacted by users who are having trouble subscribing or posting. Users can post to <list>-owner , for example [EMAIL PROTECTED], for help. So that's basically it. -jean p.s. Other lists at apache get configured slightly differently. For example, some of them also moderate subscriptions. Jean T. Anderson wrote: > Craig L Russell wrote: > >>Hi Jean, >> >>My message was too specific. I'll volunteer to moderate any of the >>derby lists that are short of moderators, not just derby-commits. > > > thank, Craig. I suggest we wait a day or two to see if there are any > more volunteers, then divvy up the lists among the volunteers. > > -jean > > > >>Craig >> >>On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: >> >> >>>Hi Jean, >>> >>>I'll volunteer to moderate derby-commits. I agree it's useful to have >>>several moderators. >>> >>>Craig >>> >>>On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> >>>>From: "Jean T. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Date: November 3, 2006 4:31:36 PM PST >>>>To: [email protected] >>>>Subject: Re: what committer would like to moderate derby- >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? >>>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>>>Andrew McIntyre wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On 11/3/06, Jean T. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Bernt took over my derby moderation duties recently (thanks, >>>>>>Bernt!) , >>>>>>but I didn't realize that I was the *only* moderator for the >>>>>>derby-commits list. And that means that currently Bernt is the only >>>>>>moderator. >>>>>> >>>>>>Bernt is in Norway and, ideally, we should have another committer >>>>>>moderate in another timezone. >>>>>> >>>>>>Please let me know if you'd like to do this and I'll get you set up. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I'll be glad to moderate derby-commits as well. I didn't realize that >>>>>noone else was moderating it. >>>> >>>> >>>>Thanks, Andrew. >>>> >>>> >>>>>And don't let that stop anyone else from volunteering, either, ideally >>>>>we'd have three moderators for each of the lists. >>>> >>>> >>>>Andrew is right -- a third moderator would be good. >>>> >>>> -jean >>> >>> >>>Craig Russell >>>Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo >>>408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! >>> >> >>Craig Russell >>Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo >>408 276-5638 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! >> >> > >
