On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 12:54:30PM -0500, George Neuner wrote: > > Is there a way to whitelist / trust posters. One of the other groups I > follow is moderated, but is set up so that messages from trusted posters go > straight through. The moderator(s) only have to look at posts coming from > untrusted sources and decide whether new posters can be trusted. > > Caveat: I don't know how much effort that requires. It just seems like a > possible 4th option (if doable).
This was done for the Babylon 5 usenet group a few dacades ago. Of course, that wasn't a Google-provided mailin list. -- hendrik > > > On 12/14/2021 10:02 PM, Sage Gerard wrote: > > > > > Wouldn't people asking to be invited be pretty much the same > > moderation burden as option 3, but with less support? I guess that's a > > way of saying I lean to option 3. > > > > I see what you mean. I saw "invite-only" as the option with the most > > /discretionary/ effort when volunteers are scarce, since a trusted > > member of this community can add a member with a presumably lower risk > > of introducing a spammer. Since I'm not going to be available to ban > > spammers forever, I'm reading these options in terms of minimizing the > > reasons someone has to drop what they are doing to mess with the list. > > > > On 12/14/21 3:53 PM, David Bremner wrote: > > > Sage Gerard<[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > All, > > > > > > > > I've gained administrative privileges over this list to address the > > > > spammer. I want to hear from others before I touch anything. > > > > > > > Thanks for putting effort into this. > > > > > > > I've been informed that an invite-only approach might not be > > > > appropriate, but without moderation, the only option I see is to change > > > > the privacy settings. Here are the choices Google gives us. > > > > > > > > - Invited users only > > > > - Anyone on the web can join > > > > - Anyone on the web can ask > > > Wouldn't people asking to be invited be pretty much the same moderation > > > burden as option 3, but with less support? I guess that's a way of > > > saying I lean to option 3. > > > > > > > Comments welcome, but note that I do not know the chain of command. If > > > > it comes down to my judgement, please let me know. > > > > > > > Pretty sure I'm not in any relevant chain of command. > > > > > > d > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/f22fdcd2-0781-4012-d906-cad44617ddc4%40comcast.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20211215183814.GA713%40topoi.pooq.com.
