On 07/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
- If a patch were to be written for Mailman-side killfiles, for individual users, would the patch be used?
I don't know what a "killfile" is.
- If a patch were to be written for a user preference for a moderated user to be able to decide if s/he wants to appear on a public list of moderated users, would the patch be used? (The default could be set to 'no'.)
I suppose, if the Wikimedia developers wanted to put something like that on, and people seemed to want it. Keep in mind there are a lot of things we'd like a patch for, and the Wikimedia developers haven't done anything about them up until now. Their interest in modding MailMan always seems pretty much nil, unfortunately.
- Mailman already has the ability to not archive publicly. Would not archiving publicly reduce tension on the list? Should this option be changed?
There's always that option, but the mailing list is already mirrored on other sites like Gmane too, and there's theoretically nothing stopping someone subscribing to the list and setting up their own public archive.
- Would it be better to let individual users decide whether or not they want their messages archived? If a patch were written to grant this capability, would it be used?
People tend to quote other posters' posts fully, so I don't know that that would be all that successful. It would have to be well-written to strip all that sort of stuff out.
- Are there any other possible patches that might be used?
There is a way, buried deep within the admin interface, to auto-discard messages matching a specific Regexp. I know nothing about regexps, but frequently wish I did, because it would help us cut down on a lot of the V14GR4-style spam. Which almost never reaches the mailing list but outnumbers genuine messages from real people in the moderation queue by a factor of about 20 or 25 to one.
~Mark Ryan