[Mageia-discuss] Mailinglist woes, Old messages released

Tue Jun 12 14:00:18 CEST 2012

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
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+> On 11/06/12 19:31, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:57 PM, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>>> afaik there was a way to assign some people the task of
+>>> moderating them for each mailing list independantly.
+>>>
+>>> perhaps we could assign this task to all team-leaders for their
+>>> mailing lists, and possibly they can defer this to someone else.
+>>
+>> I can tell for my own case (admin for -web, -marketing and
+>> -artwork). Mailman "usability" is part of the problem here. I used
+>> to moderate at the start, and after some time, I just considered
+>> filtered mail to be rejected/ignored by default, leaving to the
+>> sender the effort to figure out how to subscribe and post to the
+>> list.
+>>
+>> The default should be that: mailing from outside the list should
+>> be allowed,
+>
+> That would cause an awful lot of spam messages
+
+I'm not talking about spam. This gets already filtered before and
+maybe there has been one or two in two years that went as far as
+waiting for moderation. About the rest, it's about 20/30 messages a
+year at most.
+
+> or moderating an incoming message should be dead easy (such
+>> as activating a link + confirm).
+>
+> I moderate some KDE lists on mailman, and find it quite easy.  I get
+> email alerts when messages need moderation, and the emails even give
+> me a preview of the beginning of the message.  If that's not happening
+> on Mageia lists I suspect that a setting needs changing somewhere.
+
+It has the preview too. But, it requires you to login again into the
+admin interface, for each separate list you moderate. And yes, that's
+one step too much in the process, because the action is not "yes, I
+want to log in the admin web interface, where/what is the password,
+which message is it in the list" but only "yes, this message is good
+to go". That's a little annoyance too much for me (sympa, on the other
+hand, is friendly here, as it provides you with direct email commands
+to accept/reject a message).
+