Hello,
Well, I don't have anything against approving things by hand, but anything
we can do to automate the process is very welcome. :-) Since almost everyone
on the admins list is also on discuss, and since virtually everything cc'ed
to both lists is intended for discuss, my preference is to hold anything
send to admins that is cc'ed to discuss. This is essentially what happens
now when a non-admin posts to admins, but in general I approve these posts
because I try to moderate for content as little as possible. I am happy to
discard and reject more, especially if that's the policy and we educate
people about it.
Wayne Coburn
http://coburn-family.net
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM, AMuse
FYI tech folks and Michelle:
After some conversations with various folks about cross-posting on the discuss and admins lists (and a few emails from very confused members of discuss) I have decided to implement cross-post protection on the two mailing lists.
A casual analysis of the email traffic on those lists for various days indicates that, on a average day, between 50% and 90% of the emails sent to discuss@mickaboo are also CCed to admins@mickaboo. Many emails sent to admins@mickaboo asking for help are also CCed to discuss@mickaboo.
As a result almost everything we discuss, we discuss on TWO mailing lists, with all but three members of admins@mickaboo being on discuss@mickaboo also. ust look at the thread from today "Brand new exercise...." to see almost all posts in duplicate and even triplicate. This is detracting from the purpose of admins@mickaboo (the business management of mickaboo) and confusing people on discuss who don't know what the admins list is and why their replies to discuss get a bound (from admins which they're not on).
For now, any emails sent to one list and CCed to the other will both be held for moderation, and the mods (Wayne, Mal, Me, etc) will have to pick which list to allow the post through on and which list to discard it. I'll be simultaneously doing outreach to the mailing list folks and letting them know to NOT cross-post. After a long while we'll just set cross-posted messages to automatically discard.
I'm open to reviewing this decision; it's not firm, so please do discuss if you'd like.
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