Thanks for your work on this. Looks great. :-)
I'd guestimate about 3 to half a dozen, give or take a bit, is probably a good number of moderators to pick. We can always tweak who is/isn't in the moderator set later if need be. I was thinking it might correlate slightly more closely to the "admin" list - but I just peeked and that list has 26 subscribers, so that would probably be too large a set if it was used in its entirity.
Quoting Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com:
Quoting myself, answering Michael Paoli (mp@rawbw.com):
Er, I have a vague recollection of having gotten the listadmin password, but cannot find it in my 3DES password record. If I correctly remember that, could someone lob me the password encrypted with my public gpg password (available on keyservers or from my Web page)?
I'd be glad to implement your two suggestions.
Thanks to some off-list help, I've now gotten the listadmin password and implemented those two suggestions:
o balug-announce-balug.org is now moderated. o balug-admin-balug.org is now publicly archived.
The "moderated" status required (1) Setting a per-list flag so that all _new_ subscribers will default to having the "moderated" flag on their accounts. Persons who have that flag and post to the mailing list will have their postings autoheld for listadmin approval or rejection. (2) I then set the "moderated" flag for all _existing_ subscribers, too. (3) Just now, I'm going through the subscriber roster (twenty or so screens of them), trying to identify and un-flag the exceptions: These will be the small number of posting addresses whose postings should _not_ be held for scrutiny, because they're the people we expect to post announcements.
I have:
aftyde balug.org david sifry.com larryp inow.com michael offroadgeek.com mp rawbw.com sifry aptltd.com
Addresses above minimally munged for anti-spam purposes, even though I don't believe in that nonsense -- because other people often do.
Apologies if I missed anyone: I had, in general, only e-mail addresses to recognise people by, and not names.