[Mageia-dev] Mailing-list archives and robots

Mon Nov 26 19:42:56 CET 2012

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+On 26/11/2012 16:54, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
+> Hi Sander, *,
+> 
+> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Sander Lepik
+> <sander.lepik at eesti.ee> wrote:
+>> 
+>> Good point! So we are probably missing links to our archives (as
+>> i can't find anything that links to mageia-dev archives).
+> 
+> Not only that, it is also just misconfigured. Mail-headers
+> contain:
+> 
+> List-Archive: </pipermail/mageia-dev>
+> 
+> Thankfully there also is
+> 
+> List-Subscribe:
+> <https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev>, 
+> <mailto:mageia-dev-request at mageia.org?subject=subscribe>
+> 
+> And that in turn has a archive-link.
+> 
+Some lists add a link to archive in a footer.  Personally I've found
+that to be very useful.  Perhaps that could also be considered.
+
+> But also moderators of the list need to be setup, or the list needs
+> to be configured to immediately reject mails from non-subscribers.
+> 
+> None of my mails where I forgot to set correct from-address was 
+> approved by a moderator, and for none of those there was a 
+> notification that it would have been rejected.
+> 
+> So if you don't want mails from non-subscribers or have no
+> moderators to process mails → configure the list accordingly.
+> 
+I moderate a couple of lists for KDE.  I could take on another list,
+as long as the requirements are clear.  E.g. - is it enough to remove
+spam and approve messages relevant to Cauldron, or do we need to set
+up bounce messages to make people register before they can post?
+(Which is terribly off-putting.)
+
+Anne
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