On 1/25/07, Carlo Capocasa <capocasa(a)gmx.net> wrote: I think I own everyone an apology for being part of all the fuss that has been going on the list for a few days now. When I wrote the above quoted sentence I did not imagine the (disproportionate) consequences this would have, and more importantly never intended to imply that a moderator was here to control if what was said on the list was right or wrong thinking. Although I do think that as a moderator and administrator myself I need to make sure a certain ethic is respected, the best way to deal with the original problematic message was just to ignore it, since the replies only caused a flame war. Concerning the need to decrease the work load of moderating the list, I propose another approach : As discussed previously on the list, we will certainly move to linuxaudio.org. Let's use this opportunity to tune mailman to our needs. There are not so much actual message that fall into the 'in-need-of-moderation' category. There are two actually : non-member messages and HTML messages. The biggest part of the job is to filter spam. My idea is to find a way to tweak (or apply an existing patch to) mailman so that messages marked as spam get discarded automatically, and also to be able to feed spamassassin with new spam samples directly from the moderation page. If you are willing to help, if you know of an existing solution or if you happen to have ideas concerning this, please, drop me an email. It is as of this momment the best way to help, and is the first step towards making moderation faster for every one. Again accept all my appologies. __________________ Marc-Olivier Barre, Markinoko.