Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!wbt From: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: misc.headlines.unitex moderator RESIGNS Message-ID: <11781@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 28 Nov 89 21:12:55 GMT References: Reply-To: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 49 In article waldron@newport.rutgers.edu (Dorothy Nicklus) writes: > >Let me introduce myself. I am Dorothy Nicklus, one of the >original co-founders of UNITEX and a principal United Nations >Representative for a large international organization. >I was a major financial contributor to UNITEX ($12000 per year) [...] (Pardon me while I straighten my tie ...) >To see good research and hard work get the short-end of the >stick in favor of the petty ego-involved personalities [...] Good to see that UN Reps can sling mud with the best of 'em. >Why did she (Pat Harring) get so outraged then when we simply >wanted to announce a membership drive for UNITEX? I dunno. Do you suggest that she's opposed to promoting UNITEX ? Yeah, that's the ticket, she only took the job so she could torpedo your group. Or just maybe she understood that fundraising on the net is frowned upon, and was providing a necessary interface to accommodate the needs of UNITEX without stepping on the ground rules of Usenet. >We >were unable to post UNITEX information or even any comments >since she flat-out refused to post our replies. I imagine Pat would respond to this by saying that she'd refused to post unacceptable material, and further refused to post even less- acceptable metadiscussion. For all I know, your response may be closer to the truth... What I can't understand about your logic is this. You claim Pat only wanted the job as an ego-trip, to fulfill her mad lust for power. I futher deduce that she must have some affinity for your organization, or else she'd have found a more interesting group (to her) to moderate. Now, why would she cause your organization so much trouble *and* lose her position as moderator ? From your accusations, I could see her causing UNITEX problems to ensure her continued position, or jeopardizing the newsgroup to help UNITEX, but her actual course of action doesn't fit your claims. Instead, it sounds like *her* story is more true; she wanted to help UNITEX, but refused to overstep Usenet protocol, and the two finally became incompatible. - - - - - - - - valuable coupon - - - - - - - clip and save - - - - - - - - Bill Thacker AT&T Network Systems - Columbus wbt@cbnews.att.com Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com