Re: Stuff running slooow

I've forwarded this onto the Mj2 Developers ... it might even be doable
now, they've built a, at times, painfully configurable system ...

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> O.k. that is probably true, but Matt had a good suggestion. If you are
>> not subscribed it immediately bounces. I think that is a very good idea.
>> It would take some load off of the system and the moderaters.
>
> That won't do, as some other folks noted. But what I'd really like to
> see is a hack that, when someone subscribes to a list, goes through the
> moderator queue and auto-approves any pending messages from that
> someone.
>
> What we see way way too much of is the following sequence of events:
>
> 1. Newbie sends a question to a list.
>
> 2. Question goes into the moderator's queue because it's from a non
> subscriber.
>
> 3. Newbie figures this out (maybe right away or maybe not), subscribes,
> and reposts his question.
>
> 4. People answer.
>
> 5. Some while later (usually several days, which means that Marc is
> badly overworked :-(), the original question gets approved and
> we see a duplicate appearing on the list.
>
> There is nothing optimal about this from the point of view of the
> newbie, nor the moderator, nor the list membership (who have to be
> able to recognize delayed duplicate questions when they see 'em).
> Plus it clutters the archives.
>
> An auto-approval mechanism would fix all this (though we'd probably
> need to add something to the standard list-welcome message mentioning
> that you shouldn't repeat any questions you already sent in). I have
> no idea how hard it is to do, but it sure seems like it would make
> things more pleasant all around.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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