[Balug-admin] Re: "announce" moderated, "admin" archive public :-)

[Michael Paoli]

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.