On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:24 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > 2009/10/26 Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com> > > As some of you may know, the Banshee mailing-list is also > accessible > through a forum-like interface provided by Nabble [1]. > > Messages posted in this forum have to be approved by a > moderator before > they are sent to the mailing-list, as the sender is usually > not a member > of the list. This goes on top of the usual moderation tasks > (spams, > messages too big, e-mails by non-members, etc.). > > In the past months, we've fallen behind and the messages have > been > piling up in the moderation queue. After discarding the > obvious spam, > there are about 130 messages waiting for approval. > > In the coming hours and days, we'll be going through the > moderation > queue, and the legitimate messages will be sent to the list. > We're sorry > for any inconvenience this spike in e-mail traffic might > cause. > > The alternative would have been to discard those old messages, > but we > feel this would not be fair to their senders. > > We also want to apologize to the people whose messages did not > reach the > mailing-list in a timely manner. We'll try to avoid a similar > situation > in the future. > > Thank you for your understanding. > > > [1] http://www.nabble.com/Banshee-f33893.html > > > While I personally don't use nabble, given that your time could be > spend writing code instead of weeding out spam I would like to > volunteer to help to keep this in check in the future. Thanks a lot for your kind offer. Once we've cleared out the queue (about half way done now), we'll see how it goes. If we can't keep up, we'll be happy to take you on you offer ! -- Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>
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