List management

[Sebastian Schubert]

Hi community,
hi ethan, 

i don't think we need a 'moderator' for this list. 
the list ran very well, until some poor boy with to few bandwith
complained about some emails that took him 4KB (each) of his inbox space
and instead of creating a filter for these mails or using a spamfilter
to sort these replies out - like any other would do - he started ask for
a list manager, and so did others 

think about it ...
cheers

sebastian

> Indeed, I am the sleeper behind the wheel of the users list.  Work, 
> life, starting a new company, and Nagios 2.0 keep me too busy to 
> manage the list much.  I would suggest that someone (preferably two) 
> people step forward and volunteer to admin the -users and/or -devel 
> lists.
> 
> Here's what I've done in the short-term to deal with some issues 
> (similiar steps have been in place for most of the other lists for a 
> few months now):
> 
> 1. The nagios-users and nagios-devel lists are now closed to non-
> members.  You must now be a member of the lists to post.  This is a 
> little undesireable, but certainly better than dealing with spam.  It 
> will not, however, help with those stupid vacation programs that 
> respond to the list.

> 2. Messages to the -user and -devel lists that are held up for 
> administrative approval are now automatically rejected every hour via 
> a cron job.  I don't like doing this, but until someone volunteers to 
> handle list administration, this is reality.  Most messages requiring 
> administrative approval involve spam messages, so I don't think its a 
> big deal.
> 
> Any volunteers?  Prepare to be spammed if you do volunteer though... 
> Spambots grab your address of the list website and if you use a 
> fake/obfuscated address, you don't get administrative notices. :-(


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"In god we trust, the Rest we Monitor"
Sebastian Schubert - RHCE
Stadtsparkasse Munich
Network and Security
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