I've forwarded this onto the Mj2 Developers ... it might even be doable
now, they've built a, at times, painfully configurable system ...
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> O.k. that is probably true, but Matt had a good suggestion. If you are
>> not subscribed it immediately bounces. I think that is a very good idea.
>> It would take some load off of the system and the moderaters.
>
> That won't do, as some other folks noted. But what I'd really like to
> see is a hack that, when someone subscribes to a list, goes through the
> moderator queue and auto-approves any pending messages from that
> someone.
>
> What we see way way too much of is the following sequence of events:
>
> 1. Newbie sends a question to a list.
>
> 2. Question goes into the moderator's queue because it's from a non
> subscriber.
>
> 3. Newbie figures this out (maybe right away or maybe not), subscribes,
> and reposts his question.
>
> 4. People answer.
>
> 5. Some while later (usually several days, which means that Marc is
> badly overworked :-(), the original question gets approved and
> we see a duplicate appearing on the list.
>
> There is nothing optimal about this from the point of view of the
> newbie, nor the moderator, nor the list membership (who have to be
> able to recognize delayed duplicate questions when they see 'em).
> Plus it clutters the archives.
>
> An auto-approval mechanism would fix all this (though we'd probably
> need to add something to the standard list-welcome message mentioning
> that you shouldn't repeat any questions you already sent in). I have
> no idea how hard it is to do, but it sure seems like it would make
> things more pleasant all around.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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