Against Moderation wrote: AM, The points you raise below are valid ones, as opposed to some of the perceived 'parting shots' by those 'voting' for moderation in anticipation of the Iron Boot descending (on 'others', of course). I find it interesting that you keep refering to 'not understanding' some of the purported reasons behind the proposed system. I am finding myself getting the feeling that there is some underlying future purpose or direction behind the 'changes' that is not being fully revealed. Perhaps my sense of smell is declining in my old-age, but I'm getting an odor that doesn't match with the dinner menu that has been announced. Toto
10-30 minutes is potentially far less than it would take. What about mail that arrives in the middle of the night, or what if all the moderators are away or busy.
If you add delay before secondary moderators can even get the stuff, you are unfairly penalizing those who use a better or more efficient filtering scheme
Fine for those who want the moderation, but why are you forcing everyone to use this scheme?
There are plenty of moderation schemes that are way more cypherpunk than one central moderation authority. But why not let those of us who write code experiment with other ways of moderating the list? Please.
What does it cost anyone to have a separate mailing list which immediately gets all cypherpunks submissions? The only argument against this is "load", but that doesn't make sense.
More importantly, if some significant number of people really do want to subscribe to cypherpunks-raw (as in enough that you would even start to think about load), then maybe centralized moderation is not the way to go.
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 people a lot more confident that you aren't suppressing some messages from cypherpunks-flames list.