offlist.
On 5/7/2012 12:06 PM, Mary Barnes wrote:
I know that I have had messages discarded on several occasions. As a
moderator, I look at the legitimacy of the posting and if it is a member
of the community (it's generally very easy to tell), then I add them as
being able to post even though they aren't subscribed. This can be very
helpful as many of us use multiple addresses.
Mary,
The issue is a matter of scaling and resources. For small lists with
low traffic, setting to moderate mis-postings works well. For larger
and more visible lists, with more activity, it doesn't. The
signal-to-noise ratio is horrible. (That's a first-hand opinion, not an
abstraction.)
On the other hand, if you are volunteering to moderate mis-posted
messages for the IETF list, perhaps the list administrator will let you...
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net