[Python-Dev] Proposed: change to posting rules for python-dev
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Fri Jan 30 20:32:32 EST 2004
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 19:44, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
> Moderating the lists is taking a fair amount of admin time right now.
> At least during storms, it seems reasonable to bounce non-subscribers
> automatically. The bounce will tell them what to do to get posted.
That's really the biggest motive for my suggestion. OTOH, python-dev at
the moment doesn't have a ton of held messages, because the list was
actually misconfigured to accept all non-member posts until about 4
hours ago. What's there now is all unwanted (spam, virus bounces, etc).
Ideally, Mailman would have a challenge-response system for non-member
posters, but I don't want to get into that here.
Right now, Jeremy and I are the only admins and neither of us has much
time to be diligent in clearing the queue. So maybe let's turn this
around: if I can get 3 volunteers to be python-dev moderators, we'll
leave the current policy of holding non-member postings for approval.
Otherwise, we'll auto reject them.
Email me directly if you're interested.
-Barry
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