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From: karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino)
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Subject: Re: Volunteer for rec.arts.movies.serious moderator/editor
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Date: 4 Jan 90 20:50:18 GMT
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rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) writes:

>In article <2477@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> reiher@onyx.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Peter
>Reiher) writes:
>>I don't think that the moderator should serve as an editor, beyond possibly 
>>pointing out the reasons that an article was rejected.

>In general, yes. It may happen once in a while that the moderator
>perceives that a submission is likely to be misinterpreted or
>misunderstood. In this case, some editorial work on the moderator's
>part would be useful...  [rest deleted]

If there's going to be a moderator for rec.arts.cinema, then I think
it's important to reach concensus on the moderator's scope.  While I
agree with Evelyn's posting on moderators correcting articles for
spelling and grammar, because I think that makes things nice for the
reader, I also agree with Peter that the moderator should not edit.
Too often, I think, we assume that we know what the writer is trying
to say; while, really, only the writer knows his/her intentions, and
the rest of us are educated guessers.  I know that I would object to
having someone mess with something that I wrote, unless s/he were to
return it to me first for my approval.

As for the mailing list idea:  I've been on mailing lists, and am on
mailing lists, and they're a pain.  I think that rec.arts.cinema has
plenty of people who will support the forum.  Richard suggests that
we take a vote and see what comes of it.  Sensible and pragmatic.

And I do like the name .cinema--sorry that I don't have available
the name of the fellow that suggested .film, but I do want to say
that I, also, am into semantics, and to me "cinema" sounds classy,
not snooty.  Hopefully, the newsgroup will be as classy as the name.

Karen
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