[Reader-list] Your message to reader-list awaits moderator approval

[Monica Narula]

Dear All

This confusion has happened before, and maybe i should add a caveat 
in the welcome email that people get when they join the list: "This 
is not a moderated list, but the software mailman checks for certain 
kinds of email and holds on to some until the list admin can get to 
them. These include email that have too many cc and bcc (to stop 
spam), email that are abour subscription and unsubsription (so that 
all the list members do not have to get bored by that kind of thing) 
as well as those which it considers (in my experience till now) 
"explicit". however, since this is an 'off the shelf' software, we 
have no idea why it picks on the some it does."

and the fact that i have been stuck in transit due to delhi fog has 
made sure that i couldnt get to this before. however, happy reading 
all. (FYI, just finished admin and saw that of 11 mails, 4 were spam 
for assistance, and 5 were virus emails...)

best
Monica
List admin

At 14:04 +0530 20/01/03, Jeebesh Bagchi wrote:
>dear Sid,
>
>Reader-list is not a moderated list. It is a subscriber based list. i.e only
>subscribed email addresses can post.
>
>Posting are held if they are from email accounts that are not subscribed to
>the list. In the period of this `wait` Mailman (our list manager) sends in a
>machine generated response to the list-admin and the `poster`. Mailman also
>provides for some keywords based spam filters.
>
>All lists get a very high number of spams from a diverse sources. Thus the
>need for spam protecting filters.
>
>Regarding this specific wording of the response from Mailman, we will need to
>look into the database of the possible responces and see how it is structured
>and worded.
>
>best
>Jeebesh
>
>On Monday 20 January 2003 10:17 am, sid luther wrote:
>>  I can't believe that expression is being 'moderated' like this.
>>  What does 'suspicious header' mean? Is the term 'sexual' what
>>  seems suspicious? much as i agree that a moderated list needs to
>>  protect interests and sensibilities and prevent unnecessary spam,
>>  are there no other paramneters to define 'suspicious' or moderate
>>  spam?.
>>  excuse me for over-reacting like this, but i just couldnt believe
>>  it.
>>  s
>>
>>  On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 shaina wrote :
>>  >----- Original Message -----
>>  > From: <reader-list-admin at mail.sarai.net>
>>  >To: <kalakamra at vsnl.net>
>>  >Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 6:25 AM
>>  >Subject: Your message to reader-list awaits moderator approval
>>  >
>>  > > Your mail to 'reader-list' with the subject
>>  > >
>>  > >     THE BOMBAY 'SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY FILM AND VIDEO
>>  >
>>  >FESTIVAL',
>>  >
>>  > > 2003.
>>  > >
>>  > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for
>>  >
>>  >approval.
>>  >
>>  > > The reason it is being held:
>>  > >
>>  > >     Message has a suspicious header
>>  > >
>>  > > Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will
>>  >
>>  >receive
>>  >
>>  > > notification of the moderator's decision.
>>  >
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Monica Narula
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