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

[James Freeman]

Hi Chris,

Count me in for the DAS list and more if that works out.

Thanks,

Jim Freeman


chris dagdigian wrote:

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> 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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