So, this illustrates why I had the retention period for pending moderator requests dialed down to 3 days (the length of a holiday weekend), and why the recent increase to 21 days strikes me as a bad idea: Dreamhost's spam-blocking is really terrible, so the held-postings count was at 66 today and was obviously heading upwards.
So, I've reduced the retention period for all three mailing lists, once again, this time to 5 days.
I do read my mail, and so will not fail to see notices of held legitimate postings, except perhaps once in a blue moon when I'm actually able to get away on holiday. ;->
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