Re: address@hidden is premoderated

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 4:10 PM Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
> * Carlos O'Donell:
>
> > I placed the list on moderation to help with cooling down heated
> > discussions. It is entirely within the normal bounds of list
> > management to use moderation.
>
> It's actually very unusual to see this on technical/FOSS lists.  Some
> communities have secret and not-so-secret bans for individual users,
> but switching entire lists to pre-moderation is not something that
> I've seen often, not even during periods of intense conflict.

I don't have enough data to say if it's rare or not.

The GNU C Library main development list was pre-moderated for almost 5
years. During that period we moved a lot of conversations to the glibc
help mailing list using moderation. This helped new users get started
in a more welcoming environment. Just an example of a public technical
FOSS list that used moderation. Most people didn't know it was
pre-moderated.

In this case the intent was to keep the conversations on topic for the
list in question as documented for gnu-misc-discuss:
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss (which I
didn't write).

Cheers,
Carlos.