[ mailman-Feature Requests-1394592 ] Allow any registered member to be a moderator

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Feature Requests item #1394592, was opened at 2005-12-31 18:04
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Rocky Bernstein (rockyb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Allow any registered member to be a moderator

Initial Comment:
A number of bug, info, or help mailing list are the
target of spam, viruses and hoaxes. So often they have
to be public but be moderated for non-subscribers even
if they have spam or virus checking.

The sad part about moderation is that it is usually an
additional burden on the relatively fewer developers
who are more skilled rather than the relatively larger
folks who requesting services who are less skilled.

So it might be nice to have a box or flag for such a
mailing list that allows anyone who is registered in
the mailing list have the pleasure of doing email
moderation. After all, what's needed here is someone to
be able to detect spam from a legitimate post and most
people are capable of doing that.

I suppose this could be subject for abuse too (discard
valid posts and accept spam), but I have a feeling that
to first order approximaton this would be a big help.
And doesn't mailman already have ways of watching users
or moderators, and revoking moderation by the
administrator or whatnot? 

Thanks for considering this.

-- worn down developer/administrator of GPL projects

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