[Mailman-Developers] Head's UP - we changed administrivia settings for the mailman-users and -dev lists

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:35 PM -0400 2005-06-24, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>>  Just out of curiosity, what was the reason of the change?  Does it
>>  drastically decrease the server load or the something else?
>
>  I think it's primarily to reduce the workload of the volunteer
>  moderators.

	There are occasionally postings to the list that have words like 
"subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the first five lines or so, but which 
are perfectly valid postings.

	And yes, the result is that there should be fewer messages which 
have to be approved by the moderator volunteers.

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