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

[Michael Bernstein]

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.

I believe the proposal wasn't to *hold* non-member emails, but to bounce 
them or discard them, so your workload should actually be reduced.

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