On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 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: > I now regret expending volunteer effort trying to help Mr Rosen & others avoid delays getting their deep wisdom disseminated. > 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. > Exactly, thanks for the explanation. S.
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