Lucky Green wrote:

Igor claims that on lists moderated by STUMP, 95% of the people are

Lucky, I think that 95% figure is a bit high. I hope I did not claim it:), at least STUMP home page gives a more conservative number of 80%. For scrm, the number may be higher than that, but I would not guarantee 95% for every other newsgroup or mailing list. The variable that this number depends on is the preapproval policy. For example, in the windows 95 newsgroup where STUMP is used, their criteria for preapproval is very strict -- they require 5 successive approved posts to get a poster preapproved. That will inevitably result in more work for moderators, but heck, that's what they want. I would normally expect this number to settle around 85-90% eventually, but 80% is the low ballpark figure. Attached below is STUMP's automatic periodic report about SCRM. It shows that the rate for SCRM is about 88%.

pre-approved. I believe it. Because 95% of the posters are not a problem. It is a small part of the other 5% that fuck things up. I second Sandy and John's proposal to moderate Cypherpunks. I propose we use Igor's STUMP software for this purpose, iff it performs as claimed.

[Does STUMP have a web interface?]

Yes, look at Modscape at STUMP's home page (go there from http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov). Now it works under linux, but can be ported to other unices (and possibly windoze also). Attachment: #Subject: soc.culture.russian.moderated report for Tue Dec 31 19:05:01 EST 1996 #From: SCRM Approval Key <scrm-approval-key@algebra.com> #Date: 1996/12/31 #Message-Id: <199701010005.TAA15238@www.video-collage.com> #X-Robomod-Version: STUMP 1.1, by ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) #X-Origin: From: scrm-Admin@algebra.com, From scrm Tue Dec 31 19:05:03 1996 #X-Scrm-Info-1: Send submissions to scrm@algebra.com #X-Scrm-Info-2: Send technical complaints to scrm-Admin@algebra.com #X-Scrm-Info-3: Send complaints about policy to scrm-Board@algebra.com #Organization: CrYpToRoBoMoDeRaToR CaBaL #X-Scrm-Policy: http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/usenet/scrm/index.html #X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP soc.culture.russian.moderated #X-Comment: moderators do not necessarily agree or disagree with this article. #Reply-To: scrm-Admin@algebra.com #Newsgroups:soc.culture.russian.moderated # # #-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- # #Subject: soc.culture.russian.moderated report for Tue Dec 31 19:05:01 EST 1996 #Newsgroups: soc.culture.russian.moderated #Date: Tue Dec 31 19:05:01 EST 1996 # #This is an automated report about activity of our newsgroup #soc.culture.russian.moderated. It covers period between the #previous report and the current one, ending #on Tue Dec 31 19:05:01 EST 1996. # #Note that we do not report the number of articles cancelled #after they got approved, because the cancellations are done #manually. Typically messages get cancelled by requests of #posters themselves. # #Lastly, the statistics below are skewed towards higher numbers because #there are always some test messages from moderators themselves who #approve and reject them to make sure that our robomoderator functions #properly. # # # #Approved: 1705 messages (of them, 1504 automatically) #Rejected: 129 messages #Preapproved: 39 new posters # #-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- #Version: 2.6.2 # #iQEVAwUBMsmqLVeH1q6rtVT1AQHMNgf7BDSDpDilnCyr3IihDGeOz1Mjp0KNhkGl #sj/Dsz6+aovlUBgt/5dXg/Dq/114QLSJ9Qynlep5Y52OQdzCsI4YZWB8Sul36Nxp #FdqEXDqSJKG4RlhvKqEscpywsRUjaU5T7fOU3bFZ9HO88CIHcTsHxyXYXgYK9lCw #AFJCHWhFxgUngwABo8pwaQ9VYb3J7lz4aeCAf7zfcPiOYEX4WKWPLYdbJidxL5AF #LcmExxKdcCzzYIMgLklu/dBtln0mXXdTtbG8V8sDqQtjh8yLEdpV2JBKnPPE2YHd #8VEOLMQ7Bg38f+AZQAaLwlNB1JXLAvDKwDUT3oeIkcSllGV4wi7O1A== #=YvQK #-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # - Igor.