[Mageia-dev] Mailing-list archives and robots

[Anne Wilson]

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On 26/11/2012 16:54, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Sander, *,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Sander Lepik
> <sander.lepik at eesti.ee> wrote:
>> 
>> Good point! So we are probably missing links to our archives (as
>> i can't find anything that links to mageia-dev archives).
> 
> Not only that, it is also just misconfigured. Mail-headers
> contain:
> 
> List-Archive: </pipermail/mageia-dev>
> 
> Thankfully there also is
> 
> List-Subscribe:
> <https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev>, 
> <mailto:mageia-dev-request at mageia.org?subject=subscribe>
> 
> And that in turn has a archive-link.
> 
Some lists add a link to archive in a footer.  Personally I've found
that to be very useful.  Perhaps that could also be considered.

> But also moderators of the list need to be setup, or the list needs
> to be configured to immediately reject mails from non-subscribers.
> 
> None of my mails where I forgot to set correct from-address was 
> approved by a moderator, and for none of those there was a 
> notification that it would have been rejected.
> 
> So if you don't want mails from non-subscribers or have no
> moderators to process mails → configure the list accordingly.
> 
I moderate a couple of lists for KDE.  I could take on another list,
as long as the requirements are clear.  E.g. - is it enough to remove
spam and approve messages relevant to Cauldron, or do we need to set
up bounce messages to make people register before they can post?
(Which is terribly off-putting.)

Anne
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