On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> > May I suggest that you set a filter that prevents postings to the list
> > unless the poster is a subscriber. That filter should forward the mail to
> > the admins to allow them the pass the mail through if suitable.
>
> Do you volunteer to do the work?
I do exactly this kind of work on at least three mailing lists already, and
they all have a higher load than this list.
Sure, I'd volounteer. I could be one in the team. But I think there are
others that are more suitable that should be asked before me.
> I don't mean to be flippant here -- I often don't have time to do
> maintenance for weeks, and I would like the list to be alive even when the
> admin is not available.
Of course. We couldn't have the list go silent when one person is absent.
Having more than one guy doing this would be a requirement for it to work.
> The suggestion of having more than one admin is good, as long as there are
> people who volunteer to do it besides me.
>
> I also have to check with the sunsite.dk people whether the ML manager,
> ezmlm, can handle this.
I've moved mailing lists over to mailman for exactly this purpose. I don't
know much about ezmlm, but to allow several people to handle this task it
(the software) must support a single queue with issues and allow all admins
to work on them.
> I think I agree with this. The amount of spam is staggering. I have no
> explanation as to why this happens on this list, and not on other lists
> which are *also* open to non-subscribers.
Spammers work in mysterious ways. ;-)
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