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From: rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: Volunteer for rec.arts.movies.serious moderator/editor
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Date: 7 Jan 90 15:59:06 GMT
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In article <1990Jan4.205018.9072@everexn.uucp> karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) writes:
rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) writes:
>[re: moderator as editor]
>>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]

> 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.


Yes, this is what I meant -- returning an article to the sender for
clarification (rather than the moderator "fixing" it himself). I
continue to think that this is a useful function, though I'd like to
restrict it to the situation I described (a rare one, I think).
Spelling mistakes and the like shouldn't be touched by the moderator
and shouldn't be considered important enough to return a submitted
article for correction.



>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.


Accusations of snootiness or elitism are inevitable in this case, we
might as well get used to it. Another good reason for having a
moderator...