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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: What is a moderator?
Message-ID: <16658@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 17:48:45 GMT
References: <7618@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle
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You missed the point of the criticisms. Vandalizing aside, what most
critics had to say about comp.dcom.telecom was that operating a newsgroup
is a rare privilege, especially one as important and central to our
concerns as telecommunications; and that the moderator was trivializing
this privilege with his often off-the-mark commentary. The subsequent
flame-on by the moderator and the responses posted here and elsewhere
had little to do with the substance of the issue.

Bob Jacobson