Mailing list administration

[Jonathan Aquilina]

This works on multiple mailing lists where people just have to be added to
the moderation of that particular list


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 22 August 2013 19:33, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am willing to help but why have admins use a web interface when it can
>> be easily administered via an email. someone should really check out mlmmj
>> it makes administering the lists a hell of alot easier and all done by
>> email.
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>> http://mlmmj.org/
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>> Jonathan Aquilina
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>> ubuntu-doc mailing list
>> ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc
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> Unfortunately it's not that simple as this is a shared mailing list server
> for all Ubuntu mailing lists, if you look at the main page [1] there are
> hundreds of lists. By all means make the suggestion to maintainers of the
> list [2] but it's not something that can be switched on and off overnight
> and from what I can work out not by anyone in charge of this list alone. I
> do recall one of the other moderators on the largest list on the server
> mentioning something about a command line tool that interfaces with the web
> for "easy" moderation but personally I've never had a need and can't seem
> to find the link.
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> As Matthew said, 99% of it is spam that is easily removed with one tick of
> the "discard all deferred messages" once a day or so. The rest is people
> with large attachments or people that aren't subscribed, there is rarely
> any need to "moderate" discussion on any of the lists I'm on as the Ubuntu
> community is generally well behaved.
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> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/
> [2] mailman at lists.ubuntu.com
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> --
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
>



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Jonathan Aquilina
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