Tim Landscheidt wrote:
But, to be more productive: If Wikimedia mailing lists were set up so that mails from non-members would need (si- lent) moderators' approval, I'd volunteer for those queues.
[snip] Yes, 99,9 % of the queue will be spam. But why be afraid?
Based on existing experience, it creates a huge headache for list moderators, and usually the mod queue just accumulates until it's so long it takes a half hour to load it in your browser so the whole thing gets blown away and the list gets set back to auto-discard... thus moderation of non-subscriber mails is unsuccessful.
-- brion