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- From: rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: rec.radio.info
- Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.2.725605154.rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:01:56 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:01:56 -0600 (CST)
-
- #Vision-List-Request moderator writes:
- #}
- #}It is time to plug the horrendous hole which allows someone other than
- #}a moderator to send out a message on a moderated group. It is a nasty
- #}hack that has other solutions. Any chance it can get phased out?
- #}(And the cross-post simply is mailed to the moderator of other cross-posted
- #}groups or to the submission email address.)
- #
- #I'm with you, Phil,
-
- Since the current system seems to work, I'd suggest not changing it. There
- are significant benefits in not having "hard" association with any single
- moderator.
-
- The use of somewhat elitest "friend-lists," of trusted posters, is one
- example. I believe Werner Uhrig, for instance, allows virus-killer
- authors to post directly to comp.sys.mac.announce, since their announcements
- could be extremely time-critical.
-
- Another, more mundane aspect is distributed responsibility. Up until
- recently, moderators have been lords of their domain: this belies the
- fact that they are performing a public service. I support the concept of
- an "administrative" moderator, who may also serve as a thematic moderator,
- but who'd have the authority to appoint other people to "run the list,"
- as necessary. This would provide a socially acceptable "out" for moderators
- who start a list, but just don't have time or resources to make it work.
-
- Real life often interferes with our best intentions, killing the time we
- thought we had to spend on a project. Allowing a moderator to *easily*
- appoint "back-up" moderators, to keep things running in case of other
- time-demands, vacations, burn-out, etc., would certainly alleviate a lot
- of headaches--and if we all did it, a lot of the net.bitching about "unco-
- operative" moderators, who never post, would probably disappear, too.
-
- Let's not let our desire to exert "control" interfere with the system, if
- it's working. I can't think of more than a handful of "nuisance" posts
- on the newsgroups I read, over the past few years: most of those have been
- "Gee, can I do it?" in nature.
-
- Just my $0.02 worth.
-
-
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- Robert Dorsett
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