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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
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 12:04:18 1987
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Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
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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)