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From: ecl@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Evelyn C. Leeper)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: REC.ARTS.CINEMA -- observations and revisions
Message-ID: <3496@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 13:02:47 GMT
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Reply-To: ecl@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Evelyn C. Leeper)
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In article <1392@key.COM> jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston) writes:
> In article <1990Jan17.190304.23309@eddie.mit.edu> thakur@eddie.MIT.EDU (Manavendra K. Thakur) writes:
> }First, the name.  I don't see any great benefit to making the new
> }group a subgroup of rec.arts.movies.
>            ...  That sure sounds to me like a subgroup.  rec.arts.movies
> is for anything related to _movies_; rec.arts.movies.cinema is for "serious"
> discussions about _movies_.

I have a preference for rec.arts.movies.cinema, because the new group seems to
parallel (in some sense) rec.arts.movies.reviews.  But I can live with either
one.

> }Much more important (to my mind, anyway) is whether the moderator
> }should expect a good writing style or not.  [more text deleted--go back to
> }the original article if you need to]
> 
>                                                            ...  But the
> job of a moderator is _not to be an editor_.  Not in any way, shape or
> form.  The job of a moderator is _only_ to ensure that the _content_
> is appropriate to the group.  Period.

No, the *first* job of the moderator is to tell you what s/he perceives the
job to be.  I have said that in r.a.m.r, I consider it part of my job to fix
minor spelling and punctuation errors, errors of fact (e.g., wrong actor's
name), etc.  If you don't want that, you can 1) send your article with a
request to change not a single character, 2) not send your article, or 3)
call for a vote for a new moderator.

Some moderators edit; some don't.  As long as they announce their intentions
before the vote, there's no problem.  If you don't like what they're proposing,
"just vote no."

The proposal was for a moderated group.  That is an integral part of the
proposal, and since I don't see an *overwhelming* majority objecting to this, I
would suggest we vote on the proposal and let the results speak for
themselves.  If someone then wants to propose a rec.arts.cinema-[un]mod,
nothing is stopping him or her.

Evelyn C. Leeper  |  +1 201-957-2070  |  att!mtgzy!ecl or  ecl@mtgzy.att.com
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