[Tutor] META: Moderation and subscription to the tutor list

[Alan Gauld]

On 01/05/16 05:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> What's your policy here on the tutor list? 

I don't really have a policy. The list policy, set by
my predecessors, is to allow anyone to send mail and
encourage them to subscribe. All unsubscribed mail
goes to moderation (and there is not very much of it).

New subscribers are automatically put on moderation.
They are manually removed from moderation when they
post often enough that I recognize their ID and have
enough time/energy to visit the members page...

Replies can be seen by non subscribers in several
places including python.org, activestate.com and gmane.

> I think we should require 
> subscription before people can post. 

That doesn't achieve much since several lists servers
like gmane are subscribed so anyone on gmane etc can post
(albeit they go into the moderation queue). And the hassle
of subscribing may put some newbies off posting at all,
which we don't want.

> (And I think we should default to individual emails, 
> not daily digest.)

Quite a lot of people use the digest service, especially lurkers.
(A quick scan of the members lists suggests around 35-40%
of all members use digest). I'd be reluctant to remove a
service that is so widely used.

While modern mail tools generally have filters that can do
a similar job I do sympathise with digest users since I used
to be one of them and it was a useful way to keep the mail
count down. But they should take the time to post replies
'nicely'...


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