[Mageia-i18n] [Mageia-sysadm] Request of mailing lists for i18n language teams

[Michael Scherer]

Le jeudi 06 janvier 2011 à 18:12 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
> 2011/1/6 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> > I didn't planned to merge the 2 group. ( mainly because people who read
> > fora may not like to receive lots of mail and vice versa, and also
> > because I have no clue of what was planned for forum )
> 
> Yes, that was a bad idea, sorry! I was eating whil I wrote this (99%
> of me occupied).
> 
> I think I have a better solution, will have this on the agenda for
> tonight as well:
> 
> I think in general that "moderating" a group (as are the respective
> lists) is always the job of the appointed leader of the group.
> In other words, if problems arise in the French mailing list which
> call for a moderator it will be the French team leader's (or
> substitute's) job. The team leaders have been appointed by their teams
> and thus should have the necessary authority.
> In severe cases (I can not think of one) hand the Problem over to the
> next level (i18n team leader) and so forth.

I fear that we are not speaking of the same thing here :

to me and in the context I use the word, moderation is seeing the queue
of mails that are on hold, because people who sent a mail are not
subscribed or are not authorized ( ml restricted to some group ). Ie,
mainly spam based on my experience. ( spam and people who didn't use the
proper email to send mail, but proposal where made for that ).

You speak of moderation like it is used on forum, blog comments or
football stadium. For a ml, we cannot remove message after being sent,
except from archives. So the only thing that could be requested is to
remove someone subscription and ban him from subscribing again ( and
break his fingers in the process, I do not believe in computer
security :p ). 

We do not have provision for this, and that seems rather a generic
problem that should be decided for more than the i18n team, and requires
a cross team reaction if required.  

We should IMHO not try to solve problem until we are sure they will
appear. Mandriva mailling lists never required moderation ( besides
spam ). 
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Michael Scherer