[Matplotlib-devel] user mailing list policy

[Thomas Caswell]

For what ever reason, the user list gets way less spam than devel or
announce.

The bounce users get looks like:

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Your mail to 'Matplotlib-users' with the subject

    test of what non-subscribed posters see

Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.

The reason it is being held:

    Post by non-member to a members-only list

Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
notification of the moderator's decision.  If you would like to cancel
this posting, please visit the following URL:

<url with uid to cancel post>

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which does not include information on _how_to subscribe.  My random-walk
through the configuration pages on mailman are failing to sort out how to
customize this message.

Tom

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:45 PM Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu> wrote:

Tom,

Is it possible to have it automatically reply to non-subscribers with a
message telling them to subscribe and re-post?

If it were opened up, wouldn't it get quite a bit of spam?

Do you know how other lists handle this problem?

Eric

On 2017/01/28 5:59 AM, Thomas Caswell wrote:
> Going through the moderation backlog on matplolib-user we have a way
> high false-negative rate of non-subscribing posting with reasonable
> emails (you just got a pile of old emails because I cleared the queue).
>
> I think we should either open the user list to any posters or get some
> sort of rotation going so that the moderation queue gets handled
> (ideally) once a day.
>
> Tom
>
>
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