Welcome Skud,
great to have you on modules@. You are now both subscribed to the list
and you have admin status on PAUSE, so the next time there you'll see
another menu there that enables you to do some important things in the
process of registering people and modules. There is no howto for
admins, feel free to ask.
If you have gone through the archive, you already know who the other
members of the list are and you also know that we are all lurkers most
of the time. You know very well that this is a permanent source for
frustration among the authors. It would be really nice if that could
be improved in the future and any suggestion for a healthier
registration process are very welcome. About mailing list organization
Johan has written a few thoughts to the list in
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules/2001-04/msg00043.html
My answers in
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules/2001-05/msg00242.html
>>>>> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:34:10 -0400, "Kirrily 'Skud' Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>said:
> So, I ran some stats on the archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED], both for its
> entire history and for just the last few months.
> About half the traffic of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is from the PAUSE
> auto-notifications (and more than half in recent times).
> Looking through the archives at
> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ I notice that there are
> some PAUSE activities which seldom (never?) actually cause any
> discussion, and which may in fact be utterly uninteresting to us. They
> include:
> - Welcome new user
> - User update
Welcome new users messages help us to have a better overview about
pending registrations. If one of us runs a batch of registrations, the
others see that immediately and find out easily which registrations
are already approved.
User update messages have a security aspect.
> Stuff that's only occasionally interesting enough to merit a reply
> includes:
> - New module submission
> - Module update
For the New module submissions I the same thing should apply as above.
For module updates I'd agree that they can be directed to /dev/null.
> More likely to be interesting to us are the emails from real human
> beings, i.e. not auto-generated from PAUSE. We definitely want to read
> and respond to those :)
:-)
> (I'm working on the assumption that replies indicate interest on the
> part of [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- correct me if I'm mistaken on that one, as I
> may well be.)
I think this is quite correct.
> So here's a quick suggestion: why don't we cut the traffic significantly
> by /dev/null-ing all the "welcome new user" and "user update" stuff?
> And, if we don't actually read or verify the "module update" stuff, that
> too. Or if /dev/null is too strong a measure, perhaps a separate
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for those who actually care?
I don't care if this is one or two mailing lists, I'd be subscribed to
both anyway. Please also consider that the confirmation mails from
PAUSE may contain a commentary field from the admin to the author, so
these messages *sometimes* have important content.
--
andreas
