Personally, I don't see much use for notification. There's no reason why a moderator can't be one of the first people to see a new post. There's a RSS feed of all the posts on the forum, which is a low update feed so is fine to subscribe to. Moderators should probably be subscribed to it.
This means I can check it for spam when I have the time instead of getting a "YOU MUST CHECK THIS NOW" type email. It also means I don't get inundated with emails I can do nothing about when I'm away from a computer or asleep.
Moderation of new users, while mostly stopping spam from showing up, is frustrating for non-spam users (they have to wait even longer for help) and is a much larger burden on moderators (it's a lot easier to page through the RSS feed than clicking yes/no in some interface I have to actually specifically open).
From what I could tell, most of the spam being reported was coming in overnight. Perhaps we need more Europe/Asia-based moderators to give a better spread of times that someone is watching the posts?
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