At bottom :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:15, CherianTinu Abraham &lt;tinucherian(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Dear Tinu, That was not really my concern or that was not the reason why I bought the topic to a national mailing list. My concern *is* the same as others on the mailing list that when messages get moderated for any reason, there should be automatic message made by the filter/bot whatever explaining why the message is in 'moderation' with an link to take down the message or let it remain in the moderation for the moderator to do the needful. This does two things, it says to the original message creator 'hey, for x or y reason your message has got stuck in the moderation queue' giving the message sender some kind of response . Also it gives the moderators flexibility and breathing space in dealing with the queue. As traffic grows, having more and more moderators is not the answer because that also leads/or could lead to loss in quality moderation and one or more bad moderations casts aspersions on the whole moderation team. Take the recent example for instance. <OT> I am not really into moderation as I'm perhaps one of the *laziest* moderator you could find. I'm only excited or prone to action when some borderline stuff comes through otherwise it's all 'grunt work' that really nobody wants to do. </OT> Now if such a feature is built-in the current mailman configuration and how the mails are treated then good, if not that *could* be a good workflow model to follow. <snipped> Now its only the current list admins and mods who can share with us if this workflow is followed or not. If it is followed then its 'A ok' for me. If somethings are missing then it would be good to have it evolve or do things in such a way. It could become a 'Todo' for the list admins to take a look at, create consensus within both the admin group and the community as a whole and then move forward. Personally think that asking for more list admins is a very knee-jerk reflexive statement. There should be attempts more at finding solutions within the given environment, for we may get more list admins who may no have idea of the workload involved and lots of stuff which goes into the background while maintaining lists. One of the obvious good/bad things people are also not taking into account is the kind of abusive and hate mail that the list admins/mods do get esp. if its a *popular* mailing list or even not. Also not everybody is going to be happy with the moderation choices *all the time*. I have barely scratched the surface. I am sure that lot of people know this already. Just re-remembering the same and putting it across so people who want to take this up bear atleast these points in mind when taking up the mantle. --           Regards,           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल   My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3  8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17