Re: Administrivia

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Having a human monitor is a good idea...

-Joseph

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On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 10:42, Paul Drain wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 16:30 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > It seems like the queue of "waiting for approval" posts my
> > non-subscribers was recently flushed. For the first time in about 4
> > weeks...
> > 
> > As the website [1] explicitly states that you do not need to be
> > subscribed to post (although it really is a good idea to be subscribed),
> > we need this to happen way more often. Who is in charge of approving
> > non-subscriber posts?
> 
> That would be me :)
> 
> I do actually monitor the waiting-for-approval list, 99% of it is spam
> mail that gets silently discarded, the rest of it either gets:
> 
> * silently approved (when i'm around to do it) if it has a readable
> subject and/or first few lines of body text.
> 
> or:
> 
> * rejected with a polite message advising the user that they should
> actually subscribe to the list first and repost their message -- which
> usually happens when a user posts a feature request, or their message is
> in a language other than english.
> 
> However, the website should be updated to say the list is approve-only
> (at the very least) -- thanks for the reminder, it'll get done on
> monday :)
> 
> Paul
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