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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:19:02
Message-Id: CAKmKYaB4r_=zesrpqSA72goG=wzJx8XD48YwwSdVZTvj9_3FJQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting developer-oriented and expert user mailing lists by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > > On the face of it, I like this proposal. On the other hand, wouldn't it
4 > be
5 > > better if we just had more active list moderators? That is, moderators
6 > who
7 > > move problematic user's posts to moderated by default, and then withhold
8 > > the specific posts if necessary?
9 >
10 > I don't think this is really technically feasible. I don't know if mlmmj
11 > has the specific feature you're asking for, and even if it did,
12 > moderation with mlmmj is practically impossible to use. Even for low-
13 > traffic channel like gentoo-dev-announce@ it's not working well.
14 >
15
16 Maybe we should move to a more modern list manager? I'm pretty sure mailman
17 can do this kind of stuff trivially. It feels bad if we have to institute
18 suboptimal processes due to crappy tooling, if better alternatives are
19 readily available.
20
21 Regards,
22
23 Dirkjan

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