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

[Ricky Baldwin]

Sounds good.

Thanks a lot to all of you for your willingness to do
this!

Ricky

--- Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
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