Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: on the role of moderators Message-ID: <10792@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:04:18 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10792 Posted: Wed Jul 8 12:04:18 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 04:15:26 EDT Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Organization: DEC Western Research Lines: 15 Nobody has a *right* to post anything to the net anywhere. Posting is a privilege. Moderators are too important to be elected. Their role is not one of "refereee" but of manager, editor, and shaper. I read rec.arts.movies.reviews BECAUSE Evelyn is the moderator, because I like what she chooses to put there. Her identity as moderator is as important as the identity of the editor of the New Yorker. The alternative backbone exists for people who are sufficiently convinced that the standard groups are managed incorrectly to try to start their own. If you don't like rec.arts.movies.reviews you are welcome to start alt.movie-reviews, or whatever you want to call it (except that alt doesn't like hierarchical names)