Proposal: Disconnect comp.lang.python from python-list

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2021-05-06, Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org> wrote:
> On 5/5/21 9:40 PM, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
>> On 2021-05-06, Paul Bryan <pbryan at anode.ca> wrote:
>>> What's involved in moderating c.l.p? Would there be volunteers willing
>>> to do so?
>> Nothing at all is involved, apart from changing the status of the group.
>> The moderation would be done by the same people, in the same way, as the
>> moderation of the list is done now. They wouldn't need to do any work
>> they don't already do.
>
> As someone with a long usenet background, converting the existing group
> to moderated would be practically impossible. It just isn't done. It
> would need to be a new group created with the .moderated tag. The
> problem is that some servers won't change and getting things mixed like
> that just creates propagation problems, so it just isn't done.

As someone with a longer usenet background, it can be done, and there
isn't any great reason not to do so in this case. But I did already
suggest creating a new moderated group instead if people feel that's
better.

> Basically, some machine would need to be designated to get all the
> submissions to the group, emailed to it, and people would need to log
> into the email account on that computer to approve all the posts, or a
> robot could perhaps be setup to auto-approve most based on some rules.

Are you unaware that the group is already gatewayed to a moderated
mailing list for which all of that work is already done? The only
difference is that currently that good work is then wasted and thrown
away from the point of view of the group participants.