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

[Ken Manheimer]

What proportion of the list traffic comes from valid members who are 
posting from alternate accounts?

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Andrew Sawyers wrote:

> 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?