Re: [sysadmins] List moderation - need a break!

And as if mj2 wanted to prove the point, I had to approve this very message...

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Marc G. Fournier<scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
>
> I'm kinda curious as to which lists this 'unstustainable' is on ... I just
> checked pgsql-general ... out of 10 messages that are in the queue right
> now:
>
> 7 are subscribe / set requests
> 1 is spam from Jun 11th
> 2 are legit postings from Jun 11th (which I've just approved)
>
> pgsql-admin: 25 messages in queue
>
> 4 subscribe / set
> 20 spam
> 1 non-spam ... approved from the 10th
>
> Okay, so that one has a huge noise:signal ratio
>
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Dave Page wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was thinking of the "Subject" line.
>>>
>>> What's Re: in russian? :-p
>>>
>>>> Also, we can let subscribed
>>>> people have anything they want; ?this would only be for unsubscribed
>>>> items that have to be moderated.
>>>
>>> I'd be happier with that if we allowed users of one list to post to
>>> another without subscription, as was recently discussed. That would at
>>> least prevent x-posted threads losing messages.
>>
>> Yes, we should do that too.  Right now obviously the moderation load is
>> unsustainable;  we can't keep going with our current system.
>>
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