[WikiEN-l] Time to reboot wikien-l

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:42:08 +0000, "Thomas Dalton"
<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I think that membership should not require explicit approval, but
>> pre-moderation of the first few posts would be reasonable. Inability
>> to post-moderate is a problem, but that needs new software.

>I believe all new members *are* moderated until one of the moderators
>explicitly decides they can be trusted (which usually only takes one
>or two good messages, I think). If by "post-moderate" you mean
>removing bad emails without requiring all emails to be pre-approved,
>that's impossible, with any software, since it would involve deleting
>emails off mail servers around the world...

It means using forum software not a list manager.  Which is a
fundamental change.  

Believe it or not, as the lead administrator of a global mail
network for a Fortune 500 company I *do* know how email works ;o)

Guy (JzG)
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