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 <amuse@foofus.com> wrote:
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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