[CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

Wed May 18 17:22:11 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 5/17/11, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism
>> has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously
>> off-topic get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly
>> bounced to a configurable number of human moderators, allowing for load
>> balancing on the humans (and vacations, sick time, etc).
>
> As already said, this sounds really complicated. Coming from an IRC
> and vBB admin background, I'll suggest moderation using the reactive
> approach instead of a automated process.

Not really. The perl script was written, um, around 1993 or '94, and it
was based on one from talk.lang.russian? something like that.
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