Moderation and slight change of (de facto) policy

[Random832]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 13:55, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2016-04-19, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > It's worse than that. There are many other places that mirror this group,
> > such as gmane, Activestate, bytes.com, gossamer-threads.com, and of course
> > Google Groups. They all have their own moderation and filtering policies,
> > which may differ from those of the others. Some of them may do only
> > mirroring, while others (including GG and gmane) may allow posting.
> >
> > And yet, we manage to muddle on.
> 
> We've muddled on so far, but apparently we're just about to have
> a significant change in moderation policy which sounds like it may
> very well add to the confusion.

It does look like some attention may need to be given to gmane (either
to allow posts to continue to be submitted, or to notify gmane that the
list should be put in "Non-public (posting through Gmane allowed for
list members)" mode.