* Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-17 09:33]: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Something I have yet to understand is what purposes the bounce [from > > a moderated list] serve in the first place. Moderating is OK, but > > bouncing ? > > I read many mailing lists (this one, for example) without being > subscribed as a member. > > An automated message saying "Your post to the list, unlike many > others, will be delayed until a human acts" tells me that I shouldn't > get anxious at the non-appearance of my message on the list. Without > such a message, many people would believe their message was eaten > somewhere, and post it again and again.
Moderating has the great advantage of reducing spam in the list. We have used this setting for the mailing lists of the Debian Octave Group at Alioth from the beginning and we are not willing to change it. As regards bouncing, we recognize that receiving an automated message is not the suitable behavior. On the other hand, not receiving anything and not seeing the message in the list archives is even worse. We decided then to suppress bouncing and also to be very reactive as regards the moderation. We have two moderators for each list and we try to insure that one of them, at least, will always be available for prompt moderation. As a courtesy to bug reporters, when we accept messages we systematically add the sender to the list of people allowed to post. IMHO, if doing like delineated above, then it is totally acceptable to have mailing lists as maintainer addresses. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
