From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: moderators for GNU lists (Re: no offense, but what's up with the German political ranting & raving?) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:09:01 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087823442 4148 80.91.224.253 (21 Jun 2004 13:10:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, help-gnu-emacs-bounces+escott=nyiso.com@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 21 15:10:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcOZB-0006oW-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcOaQ-0002Bp-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcOa1-00026V-20 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcOa0-000260-1s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcOZx-000256-Ue; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcOXn-0003gN-CM; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from lab56.ma.utexas.edu (mail@lab56.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.181]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i5LD91o03080; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:09:01 -0500 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab56.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcOXk-000351-00; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:09:00 -0500 Original-To: EScott@nyiso.com In-reply-to: (EScott@nyiso.com) X-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us: You are on the way to destruction. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19010 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19010 OK, well this just reaffirms for me that the GNU 'mailing lists'=='newsgroups' should be moderated. I was thinking that a system whereby anyone who was subscribed to the mailing list could also sign up for the power to clear any message for posting to the list. There could be a simple web interface to see which messages were in the queue. It would then be posted to the list with an additional header item Cleared-by: Jane Q Hacker (jqh@hotmail.com) Moderator-score: 3 If Jane happens to clear something questionable (Nigerian scams, German propaganda, sexdrugs, ...), there should be an easy way to take away her moderator power, presumably by using some "democratic" ranking mechanism. More steps could be taken to quell bogosity, but I guess you see the idea.