Re: address@hidden is premoderated

[Florian Weimer]

* Alfred M. Szmidt:

>    > I placed the list on moderation to help with cooling down heated
>    > discussions. It is entirely within the normal bounds of list
>    > management to use moderation.
>
>    It's actually very unusual to see this on technical/FOSS lists.  Some
>    communities have secret and not-so-secret bans for individual users,
>    but switching entire lists to pre-moderation is not something that
>    I've seen often, not even during periods of intense conflict.
>
> It is even more unusual for GNU lists, we have always eskewed
> moderation.

Instead the list membership is controlled, and sometimes the lists
themselves are kept secret.  I don't think that's an improvement.  And
it's also highly unusual.