[ale] a couple of notes regarding posting to the list

[Chris Farris]

Geoff, 

How many were valid posts and how many were spam? When I was checking
them 95% were spam. So before a thread starts up about moderation bear
in mind that it will be about a 1:1 for a real message vs a spam.

Chris

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 11:20, Geoffrey wrote:
> I'm in the process of going through 146 messages that were posted to the 
> list that require moderator intervention.  That's 146 in less than a week.
> 
> So, here's a few notes on this issue:
> 
> 1. If you sometimes post from a different address then please subscribe 
> that address and set the nomail option so that I don't have to spend so 
> much time processing messages.
> 
> 2. Use recognizable subjects as best you can.  I don't like spending a 
> lot of time on this this process, so if the Subject is obviously not 
> related, the message is discarded.  If I can't really tell by the 
> subject, I'll glance at the first few lines of the message text, if it's 
> html, it's discarded.  I'm not going to wade through html postings. 
> Personally, I don't think you should be posting html messages anyway, 
> but in some cases I can see it may not be avoidable.
> 
> 3. Moderator intervention is required for different reasons, including:
> 
> a. postings by unsubcribed addresses.
> b. postings that are too large.
> c. postings where the message is sent to only Bcc: addresses.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your assistance.
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
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