We had some confusion over this (Sydney Poore's post being delayed), so here is how it works. * Anyone can join wikien-l. You get all posts from that moment. If you make a post, it's moderated by default. * When we go through the mod queue (I hit it most weekdays), we take any first posts and (in general) accept the post and unmoderate the poster. * If it happens no mod looks at the post ... it sits there until one does! * The spam still comes in by the SHITLOAD. Our sincere apologies if anything gets lost by accident ... it's rare but it happens. We don't have a moderators' rota, it's pretty ad-hoc. But if one of the others could check the queue Saturday and Sunday that'd be helpful ;-) This is more work than it should be. But moderating people's first posts has been fantastically useful in keeping the trolls at bay, particularly the ones kicked off the list repeatedly. - d. w