Moderators queue

David Nalley david.nalley at fedoraproject.org
Thu May 20 19:45:23 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Infrastructure team reports that we have 220 held messages in the
> Docs queue as of today.  If no one is moderating that queue regularly,
> then in fairness it should be set to reject posts from non-members so
> we are not setting wrong expectations.  Also, the longer that queue
> gets the more it can potentially slow down mailman (directory length).
>
> I already regularly check and prune three other queues regularly.  I
> believe this issue has come up before and since we're up against the
> same issue, I'd recommend setting the list to reject by default,
> optionally with a customized, more polite message attached.

+1 for default reject.

I noted Ben's concern, but since no one is manning the queue to begin,
with they are currently unable to communicate with us via the mailing
list sans a subscription.


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