Edward Reid <edward@paleo.org> wrote:
>At 01:08 PM -0700 08/25/00, Evelyn Leeper wrote:
>>maybe we ought to
>>create a top-secret e-mail submission address for such requests, that
>>we only
>>give out to FAQ maintainers as part of the Approval message.
>
>I for one think this would be an excellent idea. I think it's
>reasonable that once approved, a maintainer should be able to, um,
>*maintain* an faq without waiting in the initial approval line. Or the
>spam line ...
I think I like having a post-approval address, or having a filter set of
some sort. Of course, I post my FAQ under a yahoo address to minimize
spam-- I don't know whether that address would fit the following requirement:
>Especially since this submission address could be filtered to accept
>only email with a From address of a valid, approved faq maintainer,
>thus getting rid of 99.9% of the spam to that address. It would be
>reasonable to give this address to people who have reached some stage
>of the initial approval dialog. (In practice I believe you try to give
>priority to those who have already gone through the initial stages;
>this would merely formalize it.)
That certainly fits me, though. I'm not only taking over a FAQ from someone
else, but I want to give it a more obvious archive name and I want to add
another section to it (because dangit, it's just too big!!!). I've had the
FAQ for months now, but haven't been able to get very far. I had emailed
Pam Greene in the past, and she was able to give me some help (thanks,
Pam!), but by then she'd retired. To make it more fun, the FAQ is currently
posted (or *was* posted) to a moderated group. Even when the FAQ-checker
thinks the rest of it is fine, it still ends up being sidetracked into the
"we need to check this by hand" pile. -sigh-
Note to David Lamb-- until y'all get caught up, should I just drop the
moderated group from the newsgroups line, and just submit it as if it was
only going to be posted to non-moderated groups other than news.answers and
rec.answers? Would that help speed up the main process? (That way, we
could effectively approve the new archive-name and posts as if it's a
totally new FAQ document, and add the moderated group permission in later...)
>For that matter, it doesn't even need to be secret at that point --
>just filtered for valid maintainers in the From. Spammers aren't going
>to forge an faq maintainer's address just to reach a single address.
No, but I don't know whether spammers harvesting email addresses on the web
would get the post-approval changes address if the address was listed in the
archived copy of the guidelines. Aren't those also archived on the web
somewhere? I know I couldn't find my copy at one time, and needed to go
searching for them...
kate.
keeps LOTS of rec.arts.comics FAQs....
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