Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
> On 3/23/12, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm one of the people that moderates the mailing list. Using listping[1]
>> and listadmin, this is pretty swift and painless, but I think it might
>> be good if one or two others got involved. I was away in Italy for most
>> of the week and the queue grew 5 days long...
>
> Well, the thing about moderating the mailing list is that
> all moderators see the same queue, which is usually empty,
> and therefore most of them conclude they don't need to do
> anything. Is there any way to set a up a round-robin-like system
> which allocates a fraction of the messages to each moderator?
> I don't know, I;m just guessing. If anyone has some ideas, I'd
> be glad to hear about it.
Hmm. Not sure what the best solution is here. Mailman has an option
where you can spam all the "list owners" whenever there's a message to
be moderated, but since most messages are junk and there are ~3-4 a day,
this seems like a bad idea.
I wrote the listping thingy I mentioned earlier to deal with basically
this problem on a university society mailing list that I helped out
with. It has the advantage of notifying the person running it when
there's mail to check. However, it only works with linux (and Gtk/Glib
etc), so I don't know how useful it is to others.
Rupert
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