[Discuss] OOC Bans

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 5 Sep 2006 at 19:03, Thomas Dalton wrote:

> The only way it could be fixed is some kind of marker that says if an
> email has been forwarded from the other list so each list knows not to
> forward it again, but that would require very complicated
> modifications to the mailing list software, which is certainly not a
> priority.

All mail to the discuss-moderated at news.battlemaster.org that is not sent from 
a moderator of that list should be automatically forwarded to 
discuss at news.battlemaster.org.

Problem solved. This is a simple filtering rule on the mail server. I'm not familiar 
with the list server software used by news.battlemaster.org, but it should be a 
simple configuration option. There should not be any need for any special 
coding.

> As long as people always send new emails to the unmodded list, it's
> fine, prehaps that should be written in big writing somewhere.

It would be much easier to control the behavior of a small number of hand-
picked moderators than the behavior of the various posters to both the 
moderated and unmoderated lists. In this way, as long as the *moderators* can 
keep straight which

-- 
Rob

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