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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Moderation of news.admin
Message-ID: <2067@looking.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 88 05:07:45 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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With nothing personal against Mr. Spafford (and no attempt to call a vote,
since I think moderators should be appointed, if past voting experience
is any measure) I suspect the moderator of a new admin's group should
not be a backbone member.

Much of the legitimate discussion on this group has related to the
position of the backbone in the net.  The moderator should be an admin
from a midling site, with no special interests.  Many people can work
to act unbiased, but it's much easier to have somebody who doesn't have
to work at it!

Besides, I dunno about Gene, but moderating one group is plenty enough
work for me!  Right now I've got some jerk at linus who sends me a couple
of insulting mail messages every day because I once rejected his silly pun.
This sort of problem I wouldn't wish on anybody.  (Anybody from Linus
listening and willing to have this particular one wished on them?)
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473