We're using Mailman to gateway a Usenet newsgroup and email list. I'm curious, is that "severe breakage" in the archives that Barry Warsaw mentioned in his Apr 2 post fixed yet?
What Usenet newsgroups out there are being successfully moderated using Mailman? misc.industry.printing is the only one that I know of.
Also on the topic of moderating, it would be really useful if we could set up one or more "stationery" replies, which the moderator would choose from if rejecting a post (i.e. through a pulldown), rather than having to type in the responses to rejections over and over again. It would be ideal if the moderator could select a stationery from a pulldown, then once the appropriate stationery has been selected, the textarea would display that stationery response, which the moderator could tweak if s/he wanted to. If the moderator selected the "no stationery" option from the pulldown, then s/he could type in whatever they wanted into the textarea or leave it blank. If I knew Python, I'd help you guys build this functionality...
As an interim solution, I've gone in to the code that displays the "If you reject this post, explain" textarea and modified it to include a "Thank you but we're sorry..." message along with a link to the group charter inside the textarea. In fact, it might be a good idea to have a variable where such a message can be defined, but which could be defined differently for each list that is being moderated. Such a solution would not be the "ideal" stationery solution, but it would still be a timesaver. Just a thought...
Cheers, Stephan