[Ernest W. Durbin III
Reviewing, I may have misinterpreted the message from PSF Executive Director regarding the situation.
It does appear that python-ideas moderators contacted postmaster@. Appears I misread a message saying “it looks like it’s happening on python-dev too” to mean that the request was for both lists.
Should I disable moderation on python-dev?
It depends on who you want to annoy least ;-) If it's the position of the PSF that some kind(s) of messages must be suppressed, then I'll need a more-or-less clear definition, from them, of what those consist of. At which point I'll agree to enforce them, or step down as a python-dev moderator. Otherwise, as I said, I've seen nothing on python-dev so far that I would have rejected. So all "emergency moderation status" is doing for python-dev so far is annoying me with more email to go approve messages waiting in the queue, and to annoy those messages' senders with delays (waiting for moderator action). So it's not, in reality, accomplishing anything of value here. So, if I were you, I'd disable emergency moderation status on python-dev. But then I'm old, retired, and notoriously pig-headed ;-)