Re: OT: mailing list delays

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OT: mailing list delays
Date: 2002-11-07 19:56:44
Message-ID: 1036699004.8095.481.camel@camel
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On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:40, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Postings by those note on the lists (ie. reading through newsgroups) get
> put into a queue to be moderated ... today, I went through ~400 messages,
> of which <100 were legit (non spam) postings ... when I came in on Monday,
> there were >1000 messages to weed through ...
>
> I try to go through it daily during the week, but there are days where it
> just isn't possible, so it gets delayed a day or three ...
>

wow, are you rejecting mail from people not subscribed to the list? If
those spam messages are coming from subscribed emails, perhaps you can
unsubscribe (or ban?) them from the list when they send spam. Over time
it should curb your workload.

Robert Treat

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