Re: [boost] Re: Change in policy

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-10 07:39:28

At 07:46 AM 10/10/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Actually, it didn't work out as well as we expected. Beman was getting 
all
 >of the moderation requests, while Jens and I were getting none. Also,
 >people were confused by the posting delay, despite the fact that the
 >welcome message contained a notice about the moderation. Beman turned
 >the feature off.

I've been trying to understand why it wasn't working as 
expected.  (YahooGroups doesn't have human support anymore, so you have to 
puzzle it out for yourself.)

The "who gets moderation requests?" problem turned out to be that 
moderators profiles (message delivery/notification) have to explicitly be 
set. I've now done that for Dave and Jens.

The "moderate new members" feature seems to work like this: all new members 
on sign up are marked as requiring moderation.  Each of their messages then 
require moderation, until a moderator manually and marks them as "Use group 
policy" rather than "Moderated".

Having an at least slightly better understanding of how the "moderate new 
members" feature works, I'm going to turn it back on and give it another 
try.

But I think we may need another moderator to make it work.  There are 
certain times of the year when Dave, Jens, and I are all unavailable for 
several days because we are in transit to/from C++ committee meetings.

--Beman