[ale] trimming messages - was Old host you want to unload?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
>atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> I was not aware this was a problem, but I see what you're saying.
>>
>> PS  Not everyone uses threaded messaging.  I, for one, don't like it.
>>  It's good to have some context go along with the replies.
>> <snip>
>>
>
>We have a 45k limit set in the mailman server for posts.  a bit of
>snippage
>and a bit of remaining context go a long way. As the prior message is
>still
>intact, it's stil possible to review it if there's not enough context.
>
>Main thing is to kill off 6 layers of top posting :-) Some "purists"
>whine
>and cry about top posting like it's worse than a zombie apocalypse.
>Some
>people only top post since their mail reader default is set to that.
>Some
>people, usually not on a phone, will do inline posts.
>
>Whatever floats the posting-boat is fine with me as long as I'm not
>getting
>dinged about "fred's post is too large. Approve?", cause I'm kind of
>busy
>yet still want the posts to be timely. ALE gets 300-500 garbage posts
>each
>day. Thankfully, <ctrl>-f lets me quickly dig out the little tiny ham
>nuggets for these events but I'd feel bad if I missed one and blew away
>the
>crap-queue.
>
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>at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
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Hi Jim,

I'll bottom post this since you did the same.  8-)

Also trimming off the extra ALE sig.

I had to read this twice to read between the lines.  Sounds like you have the list in full moderate mode and you have to delete 300 - 500 messages per day manually.  Really?!!  If that's true, thanks for taking out the trash!

I used to run an energy related mailing list under similar conditions.  The moderation got to be too huge.

However, I thought only ALE members could post.

Perhaps you could bounce some members from the list who post nothing but spam ... as opposed to ideas with excessive diversity.  8-)

Some people moderate the first 5 - 10 messages from a new member, then set them free.  But, everybody's different.

Sincerely,

Ron



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