On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:46:17PM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
I agree it may be a sensible policy in the short term. IMHO FWIW as an occasional poster, I don't think it's a particularly friendly or welcoming practice unless you can give people approval to join the list pretty promptly.
Don't worry too much, new joiners to the list will be processed at least once a day (more than likely first thing in the morning and in the evening is going to happen).
Given that I mostly ignore the moderation queue unless it has an incorrectly trapped message in it or a post from a new member in which case I'll deal with it straight away. If it's a long term list member who has sent html or similar I'll ignore it for a few hours to make people try and resolve the problem themselves. I'll remove the restriction on new joiners at some point in the future too just protecting the list for the time being.
Adam