[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Spam levels

[Randall Cotton]

Since we now have two folks who've volunteered to help moderate - Stuart Levy
and Robert Naiman (and a third who can "probably" help - Wendy), I'll propose at
this Sunday's AWARE meeting that we switch the list to moderate posts from
non-list-members. One serious concern, I have, though, is that, in my opinion,
it should be understood that no post should be censored on either peace or
peace-discuss unless there can be no reasonable doubt that it is automated SPAM.
That's been the policy I've followed for the three years or so I've been doing
this and I feel that policy should be continued and formally approved.

So I'll make the following four (separate) proposals for both peace and
peace-discuss:

1. Moderators censor messages only when there can be no reasonable doubt that
they are automated SPAM.
2. Stuart and Robert (and Wendy if she really does want to pitch in) be added as
list administrators (anyone else?, the more the merrier 8-)
3. That Molly Stentz be removed as a list administrator (she may have done list
administration in the past, but hasn't for at least 3 years and I recently
learned she has moved to Madison anyway).
4. That Zach Miller be removed as a list administrator (again, this is old
history - Zach hasn't done list administration for at least 3 years, he is
moving further and further away from IMC sysadmin duties and has also moved away
to Chicago).
5. That we switch to moderating posts from non-list-members

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: "Randall Cotton" <recotton at earthlink.net>
Cc: <peace at lists.chambana.net>; <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace] Spam levels


: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:14:42PM -0500, Randall Cotton wrote:
: > ----- Original Message ----- 
: > From: "Wendy Edwards" <wedwards at uiuc.edu>
: > To: <peace at lists.chambana.net>; <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
: > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:06 AM
: > Subject: [Peace] Spam levels
: >
: >
: > : Hi, we seem to be getting more spam than ever on peace
: > : and peace-discuss.  Would it be OK if we turned the
: > : moderation on?  It just doesn't seem like we get many
: > : legitimate messages from people who aren't on the list.
: > :
: > : Wendy
: >
: > Yeah, the SPAM level has reached a new height. Below is my summary of the
: > SPAM issue from a while back. I'd be willing to take on moderation of
: > non-member posts (option 3 below), but only if at least a couple other folks
: > are willing to share the work. And as before, I wouldn't feel comfortable
: > making a change in the list without AWARE approval at a meeting (since any
: > change comes with at least a small drawback).
:
: Enabling moderation for non-list-members sounds like a good idea to me too.
: I'd happily be a moderator.  I spend a lot of time on line anyway.
:
:    Stuart