* 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.
