19 Apr
2022
19 Apr
'22
11:07 a.m.
On 19-Apr-22 06:41, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
I'm currently contemplating including the number of 'to be moderated' messages.
FWIW: This is likely to be most useful per-list (or per-moderator if a mod covers multiple lists). As a global stat, except where there's only one person, it doesn't seem particularly helpful - The point would seem to be to push a neglectful moderator or invoke anti-spambot measures.
possible to include the number of lists or domains but not sure it's useful enough to be worth the cost of fetching it. This seems like the kind of information that could be profitably cached
- especially if there were a cheap configuration serial number (or even last configuration modification time) maintained by mm3. If there isn't a cheap way to detect a configuration change, it might be a reasonable feature request. Configuration data typically doesn't change frequently. And besides statistics, configuration changes could be used to trigger security events, backups, or...
It is unfortunate that the REST API has been performance-challenged since its inception...