the following is my "report" of various ideas
after spending a few hours tagging spam in a few
lists. i will probably do more eventually as
i'm quite sure i'll have extra time here or
there where i just want to fight entropy and
zap some spam. helping out one way i can from
the outside (not as a DD or DM).
i could do a lot better tagging for those following
up later if i had more options (other than just
reporting a message as spam).
if a message already has plenty of marks, show it
as already marked. let me spend my clicks some
where else.
tell me which lists you need reviews for. i'll
be glad to wade through them. English only please.
put a status list someplace for us and we'll use it.
:).
it would also be nice if the view changed back
to my preferred view (month at a time sorted by
thread and date) instead of taking me someplace
else where i have to click back twice to get
to where i was.
still i was able to review the entire ctte list
in about an hour. so not too bad. :) it was
fairly cleaned out for the later years. there
were a few messages i would have marked, but
i left them as they were inappropriate for the
group, but not spam. i'm working my way through
the legal group. not too bad there. just a few
so far, i'm still in the early years... boot is
in pretty good shape. just a few recent ones
there.
on reporting spam and tagging, if i could report
it as "inappropriate language" (for english lists),
"wrong list", (for removing posts that really don't
belong in the list and the followups that tell
people where to go), "off topic" (for the group or
thread). etc. these would all help greatly in
making the archive more usable for people who come
back later. of course the raw view would still be
available for those who want the full list, but this
way it saves a lot of back and forth interaction
when i'm simply scanning the entire list looking for
interesting topics and spam.
the most general thing to allow me to do would
be to create my own tag if one doesn't already
exist. (unlikely i know, but at least that way
you would know what various people "out here"
are thinking when you are working on the archive.
also much administration trivia of a list could
be tagged so it could be then filtered out by
people who just want the core information (BTS
messages, group organization banter, please
subscribe/unsubscribe me, please remove my
messages, etc.).
review of clicked items per session so that i
could reconsider or if i know i've misclicked.
ok, for now, i think that is my input, after
several hours of clicking, it's time to take a
break.
good evening and on the brink of squeeze
let me say that you folks are doing very well
considering the massive complexity of what you
are doing.