I am proposing to change the list moderation handling - of course the  
people this *won't* affect are those here, since a list subscriber  
will not normally get their messages moderated.

Currently each message that gets put in the moderation queue by  
mailman generates a moderation message to the moderators (thats  
basically just me at the moment).  That means I get a personal copy  
of each spam that hits the list - not a small number of messages per  
day.  It also means that, during my online hours (basically UK  
working hours) I tend to respond fairly quickly to legitimate  
messages that get moderated (very few per day).

I am intending to change this so that I no longer get immediate  
moderation notification, or immediate notification of membership  
status changes (mostly due to bounces).  Instead I will purely work  
on the daily status reports (I may change these to twice per day).

At present the majority of my incoming spam load (that avoids the  
basic filters) is stuff from mailing list moderations.  This is  
taking up my time and probably meaning I miss some stuff in the mess.

However the downside of this change is that it may take longer for  
non-subscriber messages to get through to the list.

I am not at present planning to move to the far more drastic method  
of just bouncing mail from non-subscribers - which would break our  
long standing policy of being open to non-member queries.

Comments (to the list) welcome.

        Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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