Simon Kitching wrote:
Hi,
I've been a moderator for the bcel-dev@jakarta.apache.org and
bcel-user@jakarta.apache.org for a few months now. In that time there
have been 2 valid emails from people who weren't subscribed, and a few
thousand spam mails.
I'm rather tired of being a human spam filter for the mailing list. As
the ratio of bad to good emails is so high, I suggest that all mails
from unsubscribed users simply be discarded making moderation
unnecessary.
What's the general opinion about this?
I help manage tomcat-users and tomcat-dev, both high volume lists. We
use the following policy for both lists:
- anyone can subscribe
- subscriptions are not moderated
- subscribers can post
- posts from non-subscribers are rejected
This works pretty well, the only things tending to go wrong are:
- genuine users not subscribing and not reading/understanding the
reject message - less than 10 a week and easy to deal with
- auto-responders managing to subscribe themselves to the list - again
less than 10 a week and easy to deal with
The only time we have had real problems in the last 2 years has been
when an auto-responder managed to get subscribed to the list and was
replying to its own replies. This killed the list until my unsubscribe
and deny-subscribe messages got through.
Whilst no system is perfect this works well for us and on most days I
spend between 0 and 5 minutes dealing with list issues.
On the basis of my experience I see no need for moderation on xxx-user
or xxx-dev lists. I can see a case for moderation of other lists such
as xxx-committers etc.
Mark
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