[EM] Secondary list moderator

[Rob Lanphier]

Hi folks,

With the Mailman software we're using for this mailing list, it's a 
fairly easy exercise for me to go though the queue of email that gets 
sent to the list from non-list members.  The bad news is that I'm still 
falling down on the job.  I let 156 messages stack up from the beginning 
of November.  Of course, 155 of them (as near as I could tell from 
skimming the subject and sender) were spam, and only one legitimate mail 
from Warren Smith on December 16 was kept waiting.

So, I'd like to deputize a secondary list moderator.  The job 
responsibilities are pretty light.  You'll be notified when there is a 
pending moderator request.  You can use a password I provide you to log 
in and approve or reject the request.  If the queue still has requests, 
you'll receive an email once per day notifying you of how many pending 
requests there are.  Based on the past couple of months, this roughly 
equates to 2-3 pieces of spam every day, plus the very occasional 
legitimate non-list posting.

Since there is room to abuse this (fortunately, not much), I'd like to 
use this process.  Please send mail to me in any/all of the following cases:

1.  If you are interested, send me mail volunteering
2.  If you'd like to express a vote of confidence in any list member as 
a constructive and friendly member of the list, I'd like to hear it.
3.  If you'd like to express a vote of no confidence in a list member 
who is a crackpot, loon, or generally unfriendly, I suppose I'd better 
know that too.  I haven't paid close enough attention to the list to 
really get a good sense of all of the nuances here.  If nuance isn't 
necessary to identify the person, I probably already know.  ;-)

It's not like this person (or persons, doesn't need to be exclusive) is 
going to have a lot of power, so this isn't a high stakes decision.  
Nevertheless, there is some level of trust involved, so I'd like to get 
the right person.

Thanks
Rob