[HCoop-Discuss] Moderating posts by non-members to hcoop-discuss mailing list

[Lauren McNees]

It seems like some improvement/automation of the system would be
helpful. I sometimes email the hcoop lists from my non-hcoop email
address (because they're all part of the same Inbox, and I forget to
change the "from" field before I hit send) and I'm never sure whether
those emails require approval or whether my non-hcoop email address
has already been permanently approved for list submission. So, my
question is: is there a way that people can submit their non-hcoop
email addresses for permanent approval? Also, can there be an
automated reject message to the people who are not on the approved
list, so that when their emails get rejected they know it?

Lauren

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:53 AM, srikanth sastry <sastry at hcoop.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been moderating the hcoop-discuss mailing list for several
> months now. The policy in place is the following: all posts by
> non-members are held for moderation. If the post is by someone from
> HCoop, then we add the email address to the mailing list and approve
> the message; otherwise, we discard the message and the sender.
> I have discarded over a hundred messages so far, and approved zero! So
> I wonder if there is a point to the policy that requires moderator
> intervention despite the moderator having to perform the mechanical
> task of simply discarding the messages every time, without exception.
> I think we are better off simply setting the mailing list to
> discard/bounce messages from non-members.
>
> Any opinions or suggestions?
>
> -srikanth
>
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