On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:06 PM Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> wrote: > > Heya > > I've been moderating the plasma-devel list for 6 months now, and in > that time I've seen **one** legitimate pending email. Everything else > was spam. At least one spam mail per day pretty much. > > I really do not think this list doesn't benefit from a moderation queue. > > There is just about no non-subscriber traffic, and even when there is > I would expect a person sending a mail to a developer mailing list to > be able to read the auto-discard notification email they'd get back > and subscribe. So what's left is the useless chore of manually > discarding spam email at the off chance that something useful pops up. > We moderate daily at most (usually weekly really) because it's almost > exclusively spam, the useful mail would unnecessarily get stuck in > moderation for quite a while. Had the sender gotten an auto-discard > notification they'd have been able to fix it on their own much faster. > > So, I propose that we change the list setting to auto-discard. It's > better for everyone really. > > Thoughts? > > HS
I've been also moderating the list and I have the feeling that there's been some legitimate traffic albeit not a lot. In general, I think it's good that we can tell people to send an e-mail to plasma-devel@kde.org and discuss things, if auto-discard was the norm we're then unable to do that. Aleix