I'm on a list that does not have a moderator getting rid of spam. It's
pretty annoying. I'd rather deal with delays and multiple replies from our
list than with evil spammers!
Monica Forbes
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Haworth, Barry wrote:
> Looking at intervals between when I post messages and when they appear on
> the list, I see that my SF-LIT postings have had some pretty substantial
> delays lately. Looking the messages I still have on file, the times are:
>
> 14/1/02 12 hours
> 17/1/02 18 hours
> 7/2/02 15 hours
> 8/2/02 17 hours
> 11/2/02 14 hours
> 14/2/02 14 hours
> 4/3/02 2 1/2 days.
>
> The interval is never less than 12 hours, and sometimes substantially more.
> I know this is because we have a moderator filtering all postings to get rid
> of spam, flames and other irrelevancies, but the cost of this is to slow
> down discussions tremendously, such that questions are slow to be answered
> (and sometimes get answered several times when they don't need to be).
>
> My question is, is the protection worth the price? My gut feeling is no. I
> participate in a number of other lists which aren't moderated, and haven't
> seen any anything much to worry about on them. Could we perhaps try
> suspending moderation for a while and see whether the sky falls on our heads
> or not?
>
> Barry Haworth.
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