On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 19:44, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
Moderating the lists is taking a fair amount of admin time right now. At least during storms, it seems reasonable to bounce non-subscribers automatically. The bounce will tell them what to do to get posted.
That's really the biggest motive for my suggestion. OTOH, python-dev at the moment doesn't have a ton of held messages, because the list was actually misconfigured to accept all non-member posts until about 4 hours ago. What's there now is all unwanted (spam, virus bounces, etc). Ideally, Mailman would have a challenge-response system for non-member posters, but I don't want to get into that here. Right now, Jeremy and I are the only admins and neither of us has much time to be diligent in clearing the queue. So maybe let's turn this around: if I can get 3 volunteers to be python-dev moderators, we'll leave the current policy of holding non-member postings for approval. Otherwise, we'll auto reject them. Email me directly if you're interested. -Barry