[Listwork] lists with more than 50 pending posts.

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this is a really good point -- the age of messages sitting in moderation
queues is more important than the number of messages.

keep in mind that while all of our lists get lots of spam, some lists
have it particularly bad.  imc-audio received 661 spams last week!
(sept 5 - 12)  now, most of those spams were well over the 
5.5 threshhold and auto-discarded, but inevitably some scored low
and were held.

for more fun stats: http://sarai.indymedia.org/~mtoups/spamstats.html

this would be a good thing to keep in mind for future graveyarding
runs.  i'd like to say that i'm definitely impressed by the job ana and 
bht have done to work on the graveyard.  it has clearly been a lot of
work -- thanks!

-matt

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, chip wrote:

> hi
>
> jb said:
>
>> as requested by ana, here's the current list of lists with more than
>> 50 e-mails stuck in moderation.
>
> on some lists i would think that it's quite easy to accumulate more than
> 50 pending emails in a short time.
>
> in fact it might be a deliberate policy by some listadmins to leave the
> pending emails until they reach a level with which they're uncomfortable -
> at that point they then intervene and delete the spam.
>
> occasionally if i'm pushed for time i let imc-audio reach about 30 pending
> messages - which are invariably spam - before i go in, check them and
> 'discard all'.
>
> i'm new to this work here but IMHO if a list is truly dormant then there
> probably would be more than 50 messages pending depending on the volume of
> traffic - imc-audio could reach that level of pending items in about seven
> days if i didn't check the list.
>
> perhaps a true measure of list dormancy is to determine how old is the
> oldest pending message on each list - is there a way of extracting that
> information using a script?  if the oldest pending item shows that the
> list hasn't been admin'ed for a period of months then it could be a
> candidate for the graveyard.
>
> cheers
>
> chip
> --
> http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk
>