[TriZPUG] Email List Reminders

[Chris Calloway]

A reminder of a few things concerning the TriZPUG email list:

1) The TriZPUG email list is hosted by the Python Software Foundation at 
python.org. Python.org email lists are managed by the MailMan package 
written in Python. MailMan is the most popular email list management 
package in the world and is part of the GNU project. Isn't it cool to 
eat your own dog food? Isn't it cool most of the rest of world eats out 
dog food?

2) Python.org's MailMan instance uses sensible default settings such as 
the 40KB limit on attachments so as not to bloat list archives with 
attachments. It has long been accepted netiquette that if you need to 
distribute a file via email, then you should host your file yourself and 
provide a link to your hosted file rather than attaching it to your 
email, just like you should use Pastebin when sharing code on IRC.

3) Like most email lists managers, it is MailMan's sensible default to 
only allow mail from subscribed email addresses to pass through to the 
other members of the list, so that you will not be getting spam from 
this email list. If you are subscribed to this email list with one email 
address, but attempt to post from a different email address, your post 
will not go through to the list.

If you prefer to read the list through one email address, but post 
through others, then subscribe all the email addresses you wish to post 
from and set the "Mail delivery" option to "disabled" on your 
subscription options for each of thos post-only email addresses at:

http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/trizpug

I have allowed a few posts to pass through the moderation queue lately 
which fell afoul of the above reminders. But I don't intend to do that 
indefinitely, especially after reminding. These are fairly normal email 
list defaults for the large majority of all email lists. The email list 
also default to echoing your posts back to you on the list unless you 
request otherwise in your subscription options. So if you don't see your 
post echoed back to you by the list, your post has likely been dumped in 
the moderation queue for one of the above reasons.

To help you figure that out, I have changed one of the global defaults 
for the entire email list. This option is called "Send mail to poster 
when their posting is held for approval (respond_to_post_requests)?" So 
now if your post goes in the moderation queue, you'll get an email about 
it, and hopefully the moderation notification will say why.

If you get one of those moderation notifications, rather than tell me 
about it, please fix the situation the moderation notification tells you 
the problem is on your end. Because I will likely just start deleting 
posts held in the moderation queue now that they are accumulating at the 
rate of a few per day. I have been sending out personalized reminders to 
offenders when a post hits the moderation queue. But I think that needs 
to change with this new list option.

Thank you and Happy Pythoneering.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
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