(Fwd) Re: problems

[chrisw@wwa.com (Chris Williams)]

> 
>>   IMO, it's an unavoidable consequence of having a spam-free group. All 
>>posts are manually moderated. As no one is getting *paid* to moderate, 
>>sometimes the articles pile before the moderator gets a chance to approve 
>>and post them. Back in the pre-Spam days of the Net, the list was on
>>autopilot. Due to an infestation of sleezeballs on the Net, that simply 
>>isn't possible anymore. 
>>
>>   If there were any actual Kate *news*, delay would be annoying. But
>>a small delay (less than the standard News posting delay of 5 years ago)
>>is a reasonable price for one of the *only* spam-free newsgroups. I'd
>>rather have one clean digest every 3 days than 3 spam-filled ones a
>>day. 
>
>I completly agree with what you say, unfortunately I don't get digests every
>three days....whats happening is the  occaisional post gets through....maybe two
>a week.....then every three or four weeks I'll get a huge backlog of up to
>100-120 mails......I've no idea why this is happening.  I've checked my server
>and my computer......and no-one has any answers.  Love-hounds is the only list
>to have this problem.  Having to wait three/four weeks excludes me from many
>conversations, cos by the time I get the mails, the thread is dead.


   Here's a listing of dates and contents of the archive version
of Love-Hounds. Are you on bounce or archive? 

27 Sep 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 251    7 articles
27 Sep 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 252   28 articles
28 Sep 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 253   26 articles
30 Sep 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 254    3 articles
 6 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 255    8 articles
 3 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 256    3 articles
 4 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 257    4 articles
 5 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 258   28 articles
 6 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 259   24 articles
 7 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 260   22 articles 
 8 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 261    8 articles
10 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 262    4 articles
12 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 263    3 articles
17 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 264    4 articles
18 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 265    5 articles
19 Oct 1997   Volume 13 : Issue 266    8 articles

   I don't see hundreds of messages every 4 weeks. I do see
a larger number of messages on the weekend and the days
following.

   It looks like the moderator is letting posts from known
addresses through, and holds some for review, then posts 
the remainder as soon as he/she can get to it...apparently
on the weekend. Lacking a budget for a paid moderator
(or indeed any budget at all) this seems a reasonable
compromise. The alternative is to allow spam through.

  I don't know what the criteria for "known addresses" is,
and I doubt the moderator will divulge what they are.
Doing so would only mean more spam, as the spammers figured
out how to fake a valid address.

   I don't know if it's fair to everyone, but there were 
a lot of complaints a little while ago, when the moderation 
broke down and spam got through. 


Chris Williams of
   Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
      chrisw@wwa.com
"How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" - C. Crumb

Chris Williams of
   Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
      chrisw@wwa.com
"How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" - C. Crumb