Mailing list administration

Thu Aug 22 11:10:32 UTC 2013

If the email has already been moderated nothign will happen if you moderate
it again.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi :)
> In LibreOffice we use mlmmj but i have a feeling they have weird
> settings.
>
> They way it is set-up there is that no-one knows if anyone else has done a
> thing so a lot of things get done 2 or 3 times by different people.  For
> example, if a mail has been blocked and really is spam then 2 or 3
> moderators might take the action to make sure that no-one else accidentally
> lets it get through to the lists.  If it wasn't spam then 2 or 3 people
> might accept it to let it through.  It's not that duplicates then appear on
> the mailing list just that 1 or 2 of those people could have been doing
> something else.  Also there doesn't seem to be an easy way for the
> moderators to communicate with each other.  If a non-english message gets
> to the list then i don't even know if it's possible to re-route it to the
> right list so i just let it through and then try to deal with it after it
> has reached the wrong list.  If it's non-English it's difficult for some
> people to tell if it's spam or not.  I tend to have "Quick Translate" so
> it's just a couple of clicks for me.
>
> So i am not sure if mlmmj is better than a web-based interface or not as i
> have used used the web-based ones.  Hopefully the web-based one makes it
> easier to collaborate with other moderators?  Hopefully if moderating more
> than 1 list then it gets easier?
>
> Like i said it might well be that LibreOffice just has weird settings or
> that it's suffering from user-error from my end.  Perhaps it's that "the
> grass is always greener on the other side" (ie my neighbours lawn always
> looks better than my own)
>
>
> In some ways it might be better to change the system before anyone new
> gets into bad habits but in other ways it might be better to have a few
> people learn the current system before thinking about changing it?  I never
> know which way around is better for a given scenario.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
> *To:* David Manuel Pires <slickymaster at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>; Matthew East <matt at mdke.org>;
> Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 22 August 2013, 10:33
> *Subject:* Re: Mailing list administration
>
> 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 a lot easier and all done by
> email.
>
> http://mlmmj.org/
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, David Manuel Pires <
> slickymaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, team.
>
> On 20 August 2013 18:26, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> If it's possible to take it on and train up some 'new' people to take on
> more than one list each so that you can have holidays and breaks and yet
> know the work is still covered then i think that would be fantastic!
> Errr, i'm not volunteering to be one of the 'new' people, sorry ;)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
> I don't know if I can, or not, apply as one of the 'new' people Tom's
> mentioning, but you can consider me as volunteer for the job.
>
> I'm going on vacation tomorrow, for a two weeks period, but when I return
> and if you guys think I can help, I'm more the willing to do it.
>
> Cheers,
> David Pires
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/slickymaster
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
> *To:* Matthew East <matt at mdke.org>
> *Cc:* Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, 19 August 2013, 8:39
> *Subject:* Re: Mailing list administration
>
>
>
>
> On 19 August 2013 17:01, Matthew East <matt at mdke.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> We have four administrators of the mailing list, but none of them are
> active contributors to the team or the mailing list, so it would be
> good to get some new administrators.
>
> Mailing list administration is pretty easy, the web interface is
> pretty self-explanatory. The main job is really just to process
> pending requests from people posting to the list who are not
> subscribed - those emails get held in a queue. 95% of them are spam,
> but occasionally there are emails which need to be approved.
>
> Is anyone willing to take this on?
>
> Matt
>
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> I'm not as strong a documentation contributor as I have been in the past
> but I also moderate multiple other ubuntu-* mailing lists so have the
> required skills. If you're short let me know and I can add it to my list of
> other ones to check but also happy for new blood to have a chance if there
> is enough interest.
>
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