> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:43:53 -0400
> From: "D. Kirkpatrick" <nat@tiac.net>
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> Reply-To: "D. Kirkpatrick" <nat@tiac.net>
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> On 8/22/2000, Edward Reid at edward@paleo.org wrote:
>
> > If there's someone around with those skills and time, I urge you to
> > volunteer.
>
>
> I wish I had the skills.
>
> In the case of approving a FAQ it might be as simple as go/no-go and maybe
> a fill-in box for comments. SUBMIT would send the header back to the
> originator with a prefab message stating it was ok/not-ok and any
> comments.
The FAQ checker, news-answers-submit@mit.edu, automates many checks, leaving
the moderators with few decisions, usually 2 unless there are problems.
1. Does the subject line reasonably describe the content?
2. Does the proposed archive-name fit OK into our hierarchy? (we don't want to
add new top-level categories if we can avoid it).
Both require human interpretation.
The rest of the messages fall into a few categories
- spam (95%)
- non-checker FAQs, where we currently perform most of its functions by hand.
This is most of the remaining 5%. I suppose we could consider just
remailing these to the faq-checker, but I haven't thought through whether
that would create new, strange problems.
- record updates, e.g. change of maintainer address, subject, adding a new
part, ... all of which require minor human checking (e.g. that the new
address seems unlikely to be an attempt to take over a FAQ)
- subscribe/unsubscribe requests for faq-maintainers-announce (1-2 per
month, usually right after the f-m-a monthly posting)
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