On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:32 PM Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:06 PM Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> wrote: > > > > Heya > > > > I've been moderating the plasma-devel list for 6 months now, and in > > that time I've seen **one** legitimate pending email. Everything else > > was spam. At least one spam mail per day pretty much. > > > > I really do not think this list doesn't benefit from a moderation queue. > > > > There is just about no non-subscriber traffic, and even when there is > > I would expect a person sending a mail to a developer mailing list to > > be able to read the auto-discard notification email they'd get back > > and subscribe. So what's left is the useless chore of manually > > discarding spam email at the off chance that something useful pops up. > > We moderate daily at most (usually weekly really) because it's almost > > exclusively spam, the useful mail would unnecessarily get stuck in > > moderation for quite a while. Had the sender gotten an auto-discard > > notification they'd have been able to fix it on their own much faster. > > > > So, I propose that we change the list setting to auto-discard. It's > > better for everyone really. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > HS > > I've been also moderating the list and I have the feeling that there's > been some legitimate traffic albeit not a lot. > > In general, I think it's good that we can tell people to send an > e-mail to plasma-devel@kde.org and discuss things, if auto-discard was > the norm we're then unable to do that.
Sure, but then if their mail is stuck in moderation for a week, what's the use? What kind of a discussion is that where one party has to wait a week for their correspondence reaching everyone else? It's nice to be able to tell them that they can just send a mail, in practice that would also need sufficiently timely moderation in order for that to be worthwhile. Maybe iff there was 1 spam mail per week I can see that working out, otherwise the noise caused by the spam will drown out the legit moderation needs. Maybe if you have >10 mods you could make that sort of make it work (assuming all check about weekly and do so in a spread-out enough fashion to actually give ~daily coverage ;)). HS
