Adrian Pepper's Quick-Start Guide to Mailman List Moderation, Defer

  • (rendered for 'sample' list)

The following represents the web page you may sometimes see at

It contains some sample moderator requests which should be dealt with. (The posts are not real, however, so will not actually exist if you queried the real moderation page).

This shows what happens if you leave all the "radio buttons" set to the default Defer, looking somewhat like the following.

Action to take on all these held messages:
   Defer       Accept       Reject       Discard   

The buttons can be left like that, and then the button which looks like the following

 
can be selected, to cause all the requests to be (not) processed. In fact, the above button is active, and will bring you back here, with no changes.

This is not in itself a useful thing to do. But this facilty allows you to leave some pending requests unprocessed while you prune down the overall list by selecting other actions for other requests.

Sample Page

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HERE FOLLOWS a table, rendered to represent a semi-fictional webpage 'https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admindb/list-name-parameter' as might theoretically be seen for the 'sample' list)


Administrative requests for mailing list: list-name-parameter

This page contains a summary of the current set of administrative requests requiring your approval for the list-name-parameter mailing list. First, you will find the list of pending subscription and unsubscription requests, if any, followed by any postings being held for your approval.

For each administrative request, please select the action to take, clicking on the Submit All Data button when finished. More detailed instructions are also available.

You can also view the details of all held postings.



 Discard all messages marked Defer

Subscription Requests
Address/name
Your decision
Reason for refusal
wgates@microsoft.com
Defer Approve Reject Discard

 Permanently ban from this list
stanley@stanley.net
Defer Approve Reject Discard

 Permanently ban from this list


Unsubscription Requests
User address/name
Your decision
Reason for refusal
smharper@uwaterloo.ca
Harper, Steven
Defer Approve Reject Discard

Held Messages

From:stanley@gmail.com
Action to take on all these held messages:
   Defer       Accept       Reject       Discard   
 Preserve messages for the site administrator
 Forward messages (individually) to:
 Add stanley@gmail.com to one of these sender filters:
   Accepts       Holds       Rejects       Discards   
 Ban stanley@gmail.com from ever subscribing to this mailing list
Click on the message number to view the individual message, or you can view all messages from stanley@gmail.com
   
[1] Subject: Re: Agenda of the December 9 School Council Meeting
  Size: 6864 bytes
  Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list
  Received: Thu Dec 10 14:38:31 2015
From:oosti623@tele2.nl
Action to take on all these held messages:
   Defer       Accept       Reject       Discard   
 Preserve messages for the site administrator
 Forward messages (individually) to:
 Add oosti623@tele2.nl to one of these sender filters:
   Accepts       Holds       Rejects       Discards   
 Ban oosti623@tele2.nl from ever subscribing to this mailing list
Click on the message number to view the individual message, or you can view all messages from oosti623@tele2.nl
   
[1] Subject: Best watches in the world.
  Size: 165754 bytes
  Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list
  Received: Tue Dec 1 06:56:25 2015
From:roger.harrison@redoqsqlserver2.info
Action to take on all these held messages:
   Defer       Accept       Reject       Discard   
 Preserve messages for the site administrator
 Forward messages (individually) to:
 Add roger.harrison@redoqsqlserver2.info to one of these sender filters:
   Accepts       Holds       Rejects       Discards   
 Ban roger.harrison@redoqsqlserver2.info from ever subscribing to this mailing list
Click on the message number to view the individual message, or you can view all messages from roger.harrison@redoqsqlserver2.info
   
[1] Subject: Indebted for driving on toll road #0000476860
  Size: 6012 bytes
  Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list
  Received: Tue Dec 1 05:24:24 2015

 Discard all messages marked Defer

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