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

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi Chris,

It seems to have helped.  I haven't seen any DAS spam today.

Sign me up to moderate the DAS queue, and let me know how to do it.  Maybe 
Sean will resubscribe under these circumstances.

Lincoln

On Thursday 11 July 2002 06:49 pm, chris dagdigian wrote:
> 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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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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