notification e-mail and web interface out of sync

When a list adminstration asks for daily (say) e-mail notification of all pending messages awaiting moderation, the resulting e-mail lists those messages in time-forward order (and succinctly).

By contrast, the web interface lists all pending messages awaiting moderation in author-alphabetic order (and verbosely).

For a busy list, this makes the mail useless as one must, for a second time, read through the (verbose) list of messages looking for what you want to save while you delete the 95% spam. (Busy here means >100 spams per day.)

If the interface for deleting it is in time forward order, then one can actually say "All entries through 9:34am can be deleted" even if the effect is limited to confirming that what was in the e-mail notification and what is displayed on the web interface are the same or not.

If the interface is in alphabetic order by author, then newly arrived spam is inserted at an arbiitrary location into the list. As such, even a page reload means you have to start over from the top.

Note that the ~mailman account is *NOT* available to list managers at this site (mit.edu), so such things as http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#4.74 are irrelevant.

Yours,

H&T