All,
I've gained administrative privileges over this list to address the spammer. I want to hear from others before I touch anything.
The spams continues because moderation is outright disabled for the list. Our other choices are to apply moderation to non-group members only, or everybody.
I cannot select the former because it does nothing for us; the
list is configured to allow anyone to join the group. I cannot easily
select the latter because it means accepting moderation overhead,
when the community is already moving to Discourse.
I've been informed that an invite-only approach might not be
appropriate, but without moderation, the only option I see is to
change the privacy settings. Here are the choices Google gives us.
I lean toward "Invited users only" because it's the only option
that does not carry a moderation requirement, which seems prudent
given the state of the community. Assuming that I can give vetted,
participating members power to invite, a path to revival for the
mailing list exists without burdening the Discourse migration.
Comments welcome, but note that I do not know the chain of
command. If it comes down to my judgement, please let me know.
Thanks,
~slg
Correction: "Invited users only" does have a moderation
requirement, but I expect it is not the kind that requires daily
interruption.
> Wouldn't people asking to be invited be pretty much the same moderation burden as option 3, but with less support? I guess that's a way of saying I lean to option 3.
I see what you mean. I saw "invite-only" as the option with the
most discretionary effort when volunteers are scarce,
since a trusted member of this community can add a member with a
presumably lower risk of introducing a spammer. Since I'm not
going to be available to ban spammers forever, I'm reading these
options in terms of minimizing the reasons someone has to drop
what they are doing to mess with the list.
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Alright, thanks to all of you for the quick replies. As of this
writing, the list has been reconfigured to create an explicit
perimeter between the non-members and members. The public can no
longer let themselves in.
Not totally out of the woods yet.
Considering the risk profile seems less scary, disregard request
to delete my emails. :)
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Someone else wanted to chime in here. This email is just to make
the thread easier for them to find.
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Makes sense.
I'll repeat one key difference in the context of Google Groups
If you publish an email to request invites, then the process is going to be "ask to join" no matter what, so the mailing list configuration is relevant for a different reason. Do we want members to start the process in Google Groups, or by sending an email to a fixed address?
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No no, that was helpful, thank you. We do need to figure this
part out.
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