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All faculty, staff and students, who have the appropriate permissions levels, have the ability to moderate their Listserv.
*Please note: Your Listserv is edited and maintained through the Listserv web interface. If you are off-campus and need to access the Listserv web interface, you will need to connect to the campus network using the Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a browser in Horizon. If you are on-campus, you may continue to access the Listserv web interface as normal.
Moderators & Moderated Lists
Moderators:
A moderator is an editor designated to receive and approve the posts for a moderated LISTSERV. If you are the moderator of a list, you decide what messages get posted (approved) to the list.
Moderating Subscribers:
Subscribers can be moderated, meaning any message they try to post must first be approved by a moderator. Moderating subscribers is best used when you don't want list members (subscribers) to be able to post or when you need to have control over a specific list member's postings.
Turning On Moderation
- On the administration Web page for the list, click the "Membership Management link."
- Select "Membership List" to view your list membership.
- If you want to moderate everyone on the list, scroll to the bottom of the page, locate "Set everyone's moderation bit, including those members not currently visible" option, and select "ON."
- To moderate a specific subscriber, locate the list member and check the box in the "mod" column.
- Select the "Set" button.
- Click the "Submit Your Changes" button at the bottom of the page.
Turning Off Moderation for a Specific User
- On the administration Web page for the list, click the "Membership Management link."
- Select "Membership List" to view your list membership.
- Locate the list member and deselect / clear the box in the "mod" column.
- Select the "Set" button.
- Click "Submit Your Changes."
Approving / Rejecting a Post
- A subscriber will try to post to the list by sending a message to the list's address.
- The moderator will receive a notification message.
- The notification message contains a link to a Web page that will allow the moderator to approve, discard or reject the message, as well as modify the "post rejected" message.
- Follow the instructions on the Web page to either (1) post the user's message (approved) or (2) reject it (the message is not posted).
- If you discard the message, the poster is not notified, this is preferred, due to SPAM.
- If you reject a message, Mailman automatically sends a message back to the person who tried to post the message; the text of that message can be edited through the Web page.
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