Hi Members,

As a moderator of one of the nupedia mailing lists, I do encourage some of you to volunteer to Jimmy to moderate one of the three wikipedia mailing lists. This is not hard. It just requires that you check your e-mail a few times a day. If a message is posted to the list from an e-mail not on the subscribers' list, a message goes to the moderator to approve or not to approve the message. Or you can reject with a reason, like, "Sorry, but you are not subscribed under that e-mail address. Please use your usual e-mail address or change the e-mail you are subscribed under."

I bet at least a few people came up with the same suggestion...

As Ever,

Ruth Ifcher

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Toby Bartels wrote:

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I am aware when such posts happen. For regular contributors, I just ignore them. For newcomers, I try to respond.

So if I accidentally send a post from the wrong From: address and it gets sent to you for moderation, then you ignore it? I'd much rather that you posted it!

In a perfect world, that would be the best thing. But there's no time for that.

Instead, the message should say: "Hey, you sent them from an unsubscribed address, so it's going straight into a blackhole never to be seen again."

Alternatively, someone could volunteer to be the moderator for the list. (The list is not moderated, mind you, it's just that the moderator has the power to take care of this kind of administrivia.)

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