Re: Administrivia

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > 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 :)

Guessed that. ;)


> 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:
[...]

OK, cool. So how did those messages get to wait a few weeks? Seems from
your response, that this is not the average case. Too busy, simply
forgot that task, server outage?


> 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 :)

Sure. :)

Most weak points are not discovered, until something breaks. ;-)

...guenther


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