Moderators queue

Thu May 20 21:32:45 UTC 2010

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On 05/20/2010 03:02 PM, Paul W. Frields 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.
> 

Yeah, I've been uber slack on keeping up with the message queue.  My
thought is to just reject the messages with a message stating how to
sign up for the list.  It doesn't make any sense to send a message to a
list where you wouldn't know if anyone responded to your message because
you aren't subscribed!

- --Eric
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