At 10:05 PM 22/02/2007, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>It looks like I've finally understand the reasons for different delays
>that we have in this group. It looks that some emails require
>moderator's approval before they are delivered (very likely caused by
>false positives in the spam filter).
>
>Let's take the "Problem using service API to run remote backup" thread
>as an example. Somewhere in the middle of the thread the
>"X-eGroups-Approved-By" header is set and the delay for that particular
>email is about 17 hours.
>
>Can't we switch the spam filter off and instead turn on the restricted
>membership to the group? In other words, everybody that joins the group
>is allowed to post everything here... The approval rates that we have
>right now (5 approvals in February) are comparable with the approval
>rates needed to join the group (about 10 new members per month).
>Assuming that members don't post spam (right? :)), that should be ok.

No, your reasoning is wrong Roman. You see only the ones that are
approved. You never see the ones that we delete (3 or 4 a day on
weekdays, up to 30 on weekend days). I don't know how Yahoo filters
spam, but we get some really horrid ones sometimes.

We have enough coverage not to have delays of more than a couple of
hours. However, there are times when Yahoo itself is delayed.

>Alternatively, we should increase the number of moderators. The current
>ones are located in USA (GMT-05) and Australia (GMT+10), it looks like
>it would be good to have few others from Russia (GMT+05), Europe
>(GMT+00) and probably US/Latin America (GMT-10) to cover all time zones.
>If that's ok, I volunteer as a moderator from Europe (GMT+01).

We do have one in the UK too, but he doesn't seem to bother modding
this list. I'll put you in as moderator for GMT +1; and we could do
with one further east of you, around GMT +5.