[Zope.Com Geeks] Re: [Zope-dev] zope-dev list policies

[Andrew Sawyers]

Ken Manheimer wrote:

> I noticed this when it went initially went by, but didn't have time to 
> follow up.  The upshot is that there is absolutely no way *under the 
> current arrangement* that this is going to happen.  I can see a way to 
> swing it, requiring earnest volunteer effort.  Here are the details.
>
> Being the administrator of many of the zope lists (probably over ten 
> and below twenty), i am already dismayed by the challenge of the 
> typically thirty to one hundred held spam messages, bounces, and other 
> effluvia i have to handle *per day*.  I do not know how many of the 
> legitimate list messages would additionally be held and require more 
> attention (with the current mailman implementation, it takes a lot 
> more fuss to approve a held message than to discard it), but the load 
> is already untenable, so one more is too many.
>
Why would we hold non-member postings for review?  Why not simply 
outright reject them?
Andrew

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