At 3:48 AM -0500 2006-01-01, Robby Griffin wrote:
Here's what I've done for somewhat unrelated reasons:
patch bin/discard to support rejecting held messages and providing rejection comments.
add a cron job that rejects held messages older than 10 days, with the following comment:
"Your message was automatically rejected after being on hold too long without moderator action."
I like both of these modifications. Have you already submitted patches for them to SourceForge? If not, could I talk you into doing that?
I'd certainly like to apply these modifications to the other site I help administer, and I'd like to talk to Barry about incorporating these features on python.org.
If I had this to do over, I would probably say the timeout and action (discard, reject with configurable comment, approve) for expiring held messages ought to be configurable sitewide and/or per-list rather than hardwired in a cron job.
Agreed. But I would think that this would be a relatively minor enhancement over the original modification.
I would also want to consider the relationship of any such configuration with mm_cfg.PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE. It appears that some subscription requests and confirmation cookies for held posts may already expire on their own schedule, and that the rationale for this might inform the design of held message expiration.
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