At 10:59 PM -0700 2006-08-14, John W. Baxter wrote:
Unfortunately, the would-be posters then have to be notified of the message status. Thus, while you're reducing moderator workload, the backscatter problem isn't solved.
No, it's not solved. However, by putting a semi-intelligent time limiter on the thing (i.e., no more than one response per address per day, or somesuch), the backscatter problem is at least contained to a more tolerable level.
And this does get back to the balance thing that I was taking about earlier. If doing your best to make sure that people know that their message was rejected, or held for moderation, or whatever, is more important to you (and your community), then you've got the option to make those sorts of things happen. If eliminating all possibility of backscatter is more important, you've got the option to do that, too.
The point here is to increase your options available to you, and to also try to help reduce the load on list moderators and list owners to a more tolerable level.
At least, that's the idea. I'm hoping that the reality will live up to this theory.
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