On Jan 12, 2008 7:48 PM, Simon Greenhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The major problem is that someone has to moderate. Who does this? > Moderating would take a non-trivial amount of time - especially on the > high traffic django-users. Wouldn't we rather have djangonauts > enhancing django than cleaning up spam?
There are already a number of us moderating the lists. At present, it's a post-facto arrangement - we kill the spam when we see it, and ban the spammer. And yes, it's a task that takes non-trival amounts of time. Thanks for asking :-) > I suspect that most people following the lists are getting the > messages sent to their email accounts (instead of reading via web- > interface), and then their spam filters are probably killing most of > these. True - but: 1) A non-trivial minority (I know of a few personally) operate in a 'read only' mode, and so don't subscribe to the email. They use the Google Groups interface to keep up to date, browsing when they have the time and inclination. They deserve to have a view as clean as everyone else. 2) There is value in having a clean archive. If a newcomer joins today, their inbox won't contain the last 2 years of archived questions and answers. If we can keep the archive clean, it maximizes the usefulness of the resource, and (hopefully) reduces the inclination to ask a question that has been asked before. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
