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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [whine] Slow moderation on postgres lists
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:25:15 -0400
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> I login to the web interface, as 'ALL' (so all lists are presented), then 
> middle click on the posting itself so that it opens it in a new tab, and 
> quickly go through an approve all the ones that need to be approved, skipping 
> then ones that don't ... then i Use the 'select all' checkbox and 
> 'reject-quiet' all the rest (minus the subscribe/unsubscribe requests, which 
> just sit in the queue to expire or be accepted by the subscriber) ...

Ouch, I tried this in the past and found it really annoying.

> I don't do anything via email ... much too slow / painful ...

Yeah, I take exactly two seconds for each email.  No browser, no
nothing, just a single keypress for each moderation request.  Way too slow.

Now I understand why Greg talked about the need to "run the moderation
on his own schedule".  If you're gonna take fifteen minutes to do it,
sure, you don't want to interrupt your normal email flow.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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