Remember:
The main goal is to keep the list open to non-subscribers.
However it is not a problem if they have to wait a couple of hours
before their posting is approved. As a matter of fact, that will remain
an incentive to become subscribers.
Consequently, moderators should really only look at the moderation
web page a couple of time times during 'duty day', and not more.
Main rule:
You should typically NOT reject anything;
rather either approve (non-subscriber postings) or
discard (spam).
As with most interesting rules, there will be exceptions, see below.
"Duty" Days:
In order that you don't tread on each others' toes,
for each day of the week, we'll have one or two (maybe three) moderators
assigned.
If there are two (or more) moderators assigned to a specific day,
please coordinate on your own how you will typically handle "the day".
If you know in advance that you won't be able to attend a given duty day,
please try to make sure another moderator takes over from you.
E-mail notifications: Note that currently all of you will receive e-mails about pending moderations, both
Rare Rejections: The following are considerations some of which may well be revised in the future.
Compiled by Martin Maechler, Feb 2008; updated by potentially all R Core members