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[Dan Mick]

> I also have significant problems with the new moderation interface
> which has removed significant functionality by showing only an
> excerpted/truncated version of the held message in a TEXTAREA rather
> than the entire message.  The old format of showing the entire
> message allowed me as list moderator:
> 
>   a) To know exactly what I was approving, and thus not miss
>   something untoward toward the end of a message.

Yes, I miss this too.  I wish the textareas had the entire message
in it, so that they have both wonderful attributes of 1) not taking
up page after page of browser area, but 2) having the whole
daggone message (or at least the first N kB, where N is configurable).

>   b) To copy off the held message locally, for local editing and
>   resubmitting, say with editorial/moderation comments.

You can do that with a "discard/forward to" or "hold/forward to".
The "forward to" is nifty.

> The new moderation interface prevents both those abilities, and is
> not configurable to return to the old format.

I don't want the old format; I want that very-slight tweak to the
new format (configurable textarea size), with the perhaps other
tweak of "80-column textarea width".

If you agree, I'm about to code that anyway.