On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Rob wrote: >> >> I noticed a strange behavior recently. One list was set to "Emergency >> Moderate" all traffic. For this one list, I (as administrator) did not >> receive the customary notification of held e-mails until the following day, >> when the daily reminder message would notify me that the message was still >> waiting to be approved/denied. > > > > That's how it's designed to work. Emergency moderation is designed to > be used to moderate all traffic in emergencies such as to quell flame > wars. It is not intended to be used routinely to moderate all posts. > > Thus, when emergency moderation is on, posts which are not held for > some other reason are held for emergency moderation and the > owner/moderator is not notified even if admin_immed_notify is yes. > > >> Turning off "Emergency Moderate" restored behavior to normal, and I now >> receive immediate notification of held posts. > > > Unless there is an Apple mod in the order of the pipeline, you should > have received notices of posts held for other than emergency > moderation anyway. The only held posts that you would not receive > notice for are those specifically held for emergency moderation. > > >> All other lists work fine with respect to moderated / held messages, none of >> them have 'Emergency Moderate' on. >> >> I am trying to understand this behavior and was curious if anyone had any >> thoughts. > > > If you want to routinely hold all posts, the way to do that is to set > all member's 'mod' flags on and set new members moderated by default. > Under normal circumstannces, emergency moderation should be off.
Thanks, that is what I normally do, and is how I have the list set up now. So, if I do use Emergency moderate in the future, would I just check the pending requests page manually to see if posts have arrived? -Rob ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
