Having a human monitor is a good idea... -Joseph
================================================================== On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 10:42, Paul Drain wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 16:30 +0200, guenther wrote: > > It seems like the queue of "waiting for approval" posts my > > non-subscribers was recently flushed. For the first time in about 4 > > weeks... > > > > As the website [1] explicitly states that you do not need to be > > subscribed to post (although it really is a good idea to be subscribed), > > we need this to happen way more often. Who is in charge of approving > > non-subscriber posts? > > That would be me :) > > I do actually monitor the waiting-for-approval list, 99% of it is spam > mail that gets silently discarded, the rest of it either gets: > > * silently approved (when i'm around to do it) if it has a readable > subject and/or first few lines of body text. > > or: > > * rejected with a polite message advising the user that they should > actually subscribe to the list first and repost their message -- which > usually happens when a user posts a feature request, or their message is > in a language other than english. > > However, the website should be updated to say the list is approve-only > (at the very least) -- thanks for the reminder, it'll get done on > monday :) > > Paul -- joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
