James Newton, webhost wrote:
> 1. We have to convert to the new list server software
> at MIT: Mailman...
...
> 2. The existing admins are all some combination of burnt
> out, pissed off, busy and or trying to have a life...
...
> We need one or two people from the list membership to
> devote an hour or so a day (every damn day, day after
> day...) to helping with the list for a good long time
> so that one of the existing admins will be freed up ...


By the way, Mailman has "a user's personal moderation flag":

"List owners may set a user's personal moderation flag.
If this is set, postings from them will be moderated,
otherwise they will be approved."

A lot of traffic comes from "safe" members and may be passed
without moderation. The rest of traffic could be collected
into some "spool" that could be checked "on-line" by a free
moderator (moderators are different from admins in Mailman)

As a moderator could serve any "safe" member: anyway he reads
posts.

"Error messages" are collected into "system" sublist, so they
could be processed the same "spooled" way.


Mike.

P.S. The only thing I'm not aware of is whether such spooling
for the "on-line" processing is currently implemented in Mailman.
But I hope MIT people are smart enough to have done this.

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