On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 08:55:18AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings, > > * Holger Wansing (hwans...@mailbox.org) wrote: > > Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl> wrote: > > > Posting of subscriber with establish repuation > > > go through without a delay. It skips "review queue" > > Sure. > > > > New subcribers will recieve postings. Their first > > > posting gets a delay of N minutes. > > > > > > The delay has a time-out. If no-one approved a posting > > > from the review queue, the posting goes through the ML. > > > Such "time-out-expired posting" tells that the pool of > > > moderators is too small. > > Interesting idea.. > > > > Please share your idea of such mailinglist features. > > > > The delay has to be something like 24h, not "N minutes". > > Otherwise this is a too high burden for the moderators. > > Yeah, that doesn't strike me as a great approach either.
:-) When I wrote 'N minutes', I was thinking "configuration item in the manual page". Yes, delays will typically be a multiple of 60 minutes. > > The way this is handled in pglister (which is what the PostgreSQL.Org > mailing lists use, and we throw quite a bit of mail around) I found https://gitlab.com/pglister/pglister > is that non-subscribers and/or non-whitelisted folks do go to > moderation, but we have a number of moderators and we more-or-less > randomly pick the first moderator to email, if the mail isn't moderated > after 5 minutes or so, we randomly pick a different moderator to email, > and so on. Nice algoritme, nice load-balancer. > We don't have any "automatically let the email through" option today, > and we're pretty successfully able to moderate a lot of mail, let a > lot of mail through, I do read "Many volunteers on guarding duty". Yes, that is truely distributed moderation. > and have very very little spam get through (the little it does > happen is almost always due to a mistake by a moderator, which does > happen from time to time, of course). Yes, human touch preferred. > Thanks, > Stephen Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
