Against Moderation wrote:
3. Not making the unmoderated list first-up (i.e., cutting posts first, then making the "full" list available later) is suspicious, or at least a bad idea.[snip] What is the advantage of not having a cypherpunks-raw? I just don't understand it. It costs you nothing, it shows your willingness to compete with other moderators or moderation schemes, and it will make
Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> writes: people a lot more confident that you aren't suppressing some messages from cypherpunks-flames list. If for some reason load really is the problem (though I can't see how), then can you set some maximum number of subscribers you would be willing to mail cypherpunks-raw to? I mean 50 people shouldn't be that big a deal, right? And if more than 50 want to subscribe and you think toad can't handle the load, I will run a mail exploder on a different machine.
Great ideas, but if I had to bet money, I'd place my bets with Dr. Vulis on what lies behind their real reasoning.