Quoting Lawrence Rosen (lro...@rosenlaw.com)i, who I think was addressing this question to Simon Phipps:
> I dislike mailman defaults. Why are you moderating my emails at all? > Or John Cowan's? Or Henrik Ingo's? I think there's some confusion here caused by inexact wording and the word 'moderated' having overloaded meanings: Simon Philpps (part of a group of OSI listadmins) mentioned having to appprove several recent postings from the listadmin queue that were held because of 'too many recipients'. The Mailman default setting for this item ('Ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting', on page Privacy Options, Recipient Filters) is 10, though in practice the filter seems to trigger on a slightly lower number of recipients. I infer that Simon, when he spoke of having to 'moderate through' postings, meant merely ones that landed in the listadmin queue. He was quite correctly and very benignly giving people advice on how to avoid the admin queue. license-discuss appears to not set any subscriber's 'moderated' flag by default -- which again is GNU Mailman's default configuration. So, I strongly suspect that you (Lawrence), and John, and Henrik, do _not_ have that flag set. (IMO:) Smart list administration, like smart system administration, aspires to automate, to limit manual exception-handling to a bare minimum. > I also moderate an opensource.org mailing list. What a drag to discard > or ignore spam every day! The only effective way to reduce that, IMO, is to improve automated spam-rejection at the receiving MTA, which is a hard problem. Short of that, set a short retention period (I like 3 days) on 'Discard held messages older than this number of days', which is at the bottom of the General Options page -- where GNU Mailman's default is zero (no automatic discarding). A short retention period makes spam expire out of queue rapidly without listadmin work. Three-day retention gives listadmins enough time to notice held non-spam over a holiday weekend. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss