[Mailman-Developers] On allowing any list member to be an email moderator

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:14 PM -0500 2006-01-01, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>  Come to think of it, a list like mailman-developers could use a variant
>  similar to the confirm-and-approve for subscriptions.  Admins would only
>  see confirmed messages in their queue.  At that point, most spam should
>  be deleted and the moderator only as to decide whether the message is
>  on-topic or not (something that will always be a judgment call).

	If confirmations were required for posting by non-members (before 
the messages would make it into a moderation queue), I think that 
would pretty much completely solve all the moderation problems that I 
have personal experience with.


	But then we're getting dangerously close to tools like Active 
Spam Killer or TMDA, which I am generally violently opposed to.

	Maybe those kinds of tools are appropriate for mailing list use 
but not personal use, I dunno....

	I'll have to think long and hard on that topic.

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