[ale] trimming messages - was Old host you want to unload?

[Jim Kinney]

I don't moderate! What I have is a good set of filters so I get notices of
messages that can't post due to anything but non-member post. Those go
straight to trash and are dumped by mailman after 24 hours.
I like what's left of my sanity :-)
On Jul 16, 2013 6:23 PM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

>
>
> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> >atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I was not aware this was a problem, but I see what you're saying.
> >>
> >> PS  Not everyone uses threaded messaging.  I, for one, don't like it.
> >>  It's good to have some context go along with the replies.
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >
> >We have a 45k limit set in the mailman server for posts.  a bit of
> >snippage
> >and a bit of remaining context go a long way. As the prior message is
> >still
> >intact, it's stil possible to review it if there's not enough context.
> >
> >Main thing is to kill off 6 layers of top posting :-) Some "purists"
> >whine
> >and cry about top posting like it's worse than a zombie apocalypse.
> >Some
> >people only top post since their mail reader default is set to that.
> >Some
> >people, usually not on a phone, will do inline posts.
> >
> >Whatever floats the posting-boat is fine with me as long as I'm not
> >getting
> >dinged about "fred's post is too large. Approve?", cause I'm kind of
> >busy
> >yet still want the posts to be timely. ALE gets 300-500 garbage posts
> >each
> >day. Thankfully, <ctrl>-f lets me quickly dig out the little tiny ham
> >nuggets for these events but I'd feel bad if I missed one and blew away
> >the
> >crap-queue.
> >
> >--
> >--
> >James P. Kinney III
> >*
> >*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
> >gain
> >at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
> >tail.
> >It won't fatten the dog.
> >- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> >*
> >http://electjimkinney.org
> >http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> >*
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I'll bottom post this since you did the same.  8-)
>
> Also trimming off the extra ALE sig.
>
> I had to read this twice to read between the lines.  Sounds like you have
> the list in full moderate mode and you have to delete 300 - 500 messages
> per day manually.  Really?!!  If that's true, thanks for taking out the
> trash!
>
> I used to run an energy related mailing list under similar conditions.
>  The moderation got to be too huge.
>
> However, I thought only ALE members could post.
>
> Perhaps you could bounce some members from the list who post nothing but
> spam ... as opposed to ideas with excessive diversity.  8-)
>
> Some people moderate the first 5 - 10 messages from a new member, then set
> them free.  But, everybody's different.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> --
>
> Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail.
> Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen.
>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very
> quickly.)
>
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