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From: gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: misc.headlines.unitex moderator RESIGNS
Message-ID: <542@panix.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 89 15:18:44 GMT
References: <3708@ccnysci.UUCP> <2388@stl.stc.co.uk> <9739@zodiac.ADS.COM> <5408@cps3xx.UUCP> <1072@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <332@6sigma.UUCP> <1076@umigw.MIAMI.EDU>
Reply-To: gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
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)In article <332@6sigma.UUCP> blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
)>The group with Pat as moderator was approved by consensus, not the group
)>alone.

In article <1076@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu writes:
)Not to my recollection. It was approved as a moderated group. Whether
)or not a specific person is moderating it shouldn't matter.
)
)After all, if [moderator x] of comp.sources.[your choice] resigns,
)that group wouldn't disappear.
)
)When I voted yes, I did not care that it was Pat in particular
)moderating it, only that the group was something I was interested 
)in, and that it was a moderated group to cut down on trash.

When a comp group has a moderator and she or he resigns, there's
usually an effort made to find another one.  That's because comp
groups are politically correct.  (The term "politically correct"
isn't just something to hit left-wing groups with.)  As certain
postings about ..unitex have shown, it's politically incorrect.
So as soon as an excuse came along to eliminate it, it was
eliminated.  The rmgroups were probably sent out five minutes
after Patt's resignation was received -- if not five seconds.

You may recall, by the way, that when ..unitex was voted on the
votes were challenged just as with a certain recent newsgroup
vote.  You'd think the orthodox would have the imagination to
come up with new forms of attack occasionally, but I suppose a 
lack of imagination is one of the attributes of orthodoxy.
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