I think a monthly FAQ on the policies for this list would be useful. As one of the three moderators of this list, I just received the first-seen moderation-request for an honest-to-goodness spam of the Nigerian money-laundering scam sort.
Most of the moderation requests that the list robot sends to my inbox are for unsubscribed or not-yet-subscribed posters. There is a way to let the post through, with the option of enabling all future posts as well, but it doesn't grant a subscription. That takes the usual ritual. No one is subscribed automatically. Sometimes moderation can take several hours depending on when moderators are awake and reading their mail. (Reading mail while asleep is discouraged.) I give moderation requests first-priority in my inbox. I suppose the FAQ could talk about that. The FAQ should point out that all posts are archived and as a matter of policy, posts are not deleted and I am not sure a moderator can do it. The FAQ could point out about access via GMane too. Likewise, banning users is not taken lightly (or done easily). Unless an user turns into a spam source or goes off into some sort of off-topic-for-everything-at-all message-strafing attack (and serious offensive speech after cautioning), the idea is for list users to work out controversies among themselves and clean up our own street. Any more thoughts about what a FAQ should contain beside basic logistics and what the scope of subject-matter for the list is? As for etiquette, I would go so far as to link to a nice treatment provided by Italo Vignoli at <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette>, with minimal patches with regard to difference in subject matter and other details that apply to this list. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Hagar Delest [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 11:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Forum outage The only action needed here is just to stop replying this topic! So please let this post be the last one. Hagar Le mar. 04 oct. 2011 11:10:46 CEST, floris v <[email protected]> a écrit : > Op 4-10-2011 6:25, Dennis E. Hamilton schreef: >> And then farther down in the same message, the question Robert Holtman asked >> was >> >> "Again, could you please expand on your opinion?" >> >> When Andreas objected to a characterization of forums (not exactly in a nice >> way). >> He responded to that also. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Larry Gusaas [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 20:32 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Forum outage >> >> On 2011-10-03 9:23 PM Robert Holtzman wrote: >>> Errr...I didn't ask any questions. >> Yes you did. You asked "Could you please expand on your objection to mailing >> lists?" You >> received a very clear response to that question which you then denigrated by >> accusing the >> author of "ranting. >> > +1. Some forums have the advantage that you can add users to an ignore list. > It'd be great to have that possibility here as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
