So I have been on the moderation list for this mailing list for 10 months now.
In the meantime, I have had perfectly valid e-mails sent to this list rejected without a reason, and my appeal not getting any response whatsoever from the moderators.
If this were a wiki, everyone would be shouting themselves hoarse at having people blocked for such a long time, and seemingly without any means of protesting such decisions.
However, this being a mailing list, with the moderation team having no accountability to anyone, and abusing their status multiple times in the past year, such decisions come without any discussion -- mostly because they are made behind closed doors in the spirit of Wikimedia transparency.
So, here is my good-faith attempt at getting taken off the moderation list after ten months of waiting, and perhaps having a stab at finally establishing at least some basic rules of moderator behaviour so that we do not see long-term good-faith contributors hushed up due to expressing criticisms.
-- Tomasz