[DAS] DAS list is now set to "members only" for posting but I need your help

[chris dagdigian]

Hi folks,

I sent a "what we are doing to fight spam" message to this list a while 
ago and mentioned that we cannot just up and make this list moderated 
without the list members themselves agreeing to the change (some people 
are very against closed discussion lists). No response except for more 
complaints about spam.

One of the things that I mentioned was that we do not have the 
administrative bandwidth to personally take on moderator duties for this 
list. If we make this list moderated or take it to members-post-only 
status then someone will have to deal with the posts from non-members 
that will get diverted into the moderator queue.

Given that we lost Sean Eddy over spam and that you folks seem to get 
more than the usual amount I have just converted the list from open to 
"only members can post".

This is going to make extra work for me and I could really use a 
volunteer or two to step up and offer to take on the task of reviewing 
the queued-for-moderator-attention email messages. Anyone with a web 
browser can do this.

If I'm the only one doing the approve/discard then valid messages from 
non-members may get held up for a day or more until I have the time to 
look at the DAS queue.

We can use 2 types of volunteers:

o someone who is only interested in expediting queued messages for the 
DAS list. This will literally take a few minutes of time per week.

o someone who is willing to join our volunteer "openbio mailteam" and 
handle web-based list management tasks for all of Open-Bio.org. This 
involves getting daily emails that say stuff like: "9 messages to 
bioper-l held for review..." but only takes a few minutes of work per 
day to get through. The messages can be filtered into a low priority 
folder for action whenever there is time.

Anyone?

-Chris
open-bio.org




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