public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Kris Jurka <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: mailing list moderation of subscriptions
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:29:02 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Kris Jurka wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> Actually, Kris is referring to ppl sending in a subscribe message, but not 
>> sending back a confirmation ... the list moderator has the ability to 
>> approve such requests, which I general do when I clean out the lists ... 
>> the problem is that I know that I've had issues where that confirmation 
>> mail gets lost as spam (ie. Yahoo's spam features send it to the bulk mail 
>> folder, that I've had experience with ppl losing emails in) ...
>
> I guess my question is why do we have a confirmation at all?  If someone 
> else tries to subscribe me then I have a small window where I can reject 
> it, but otherwise it will be approved by a moderator?

My big worry is ppl slipping through the cracks due to anti-spam filters 
... but, you do bring up a good point, why bother with the confirmation in 
the first place ...

Anyone else have comments on this?  It kinda breaks down into two paths:

1. remove 'confirmation / followup' email to subscribe
2. have moderators just ignore "admin requests"

I don't like 1 myself, as that leaves things open to a dictionary attack 
kind of situation, where someone floods the lists with subscribe messages 
... but, on the other hand, the way i've been doing things, those would 
just get approved anyway ...

*groan* ... I think I just talked myself into 2 ... ignore them ...

>> But, if Kris wants me to stop, that's cool ... there are other lists I 
>> don't touch ...
>> 
>
> I'd appreciate it if you still moderated messages in case I'm travelling or 
> otherwise unavailable.

Oh, for messages themselves, I definitely will ... I'll just skip the 
subscribe/unsubscribe/set messages :)

----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: [email protected]           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

view thread (8+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: mailing list moderation of subscriptions
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox