Subject: Re: where are the women in this newsgroup?
Date: 11 Nov 1999 03:32:37 GMT
From: Chris Ho-Stuart < 
Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian
j < > wrote:
> Andrew Bromage wrote in message
>> The moderator of the NG has no power to censor out posts even if
>> he wanted to.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew Bromage
>> The moderator of the NG
>
> Are you serious?  It is hard to imagine that this ng could have a moderator.
> But then, you say you have no power to censor.  What exactly do you do?

Perhaps you should hear this from someone 
other than the moderator.

The moderator is not the boss of the group. 
He is the servant of the group.

It was a decision of us, the group members, 
that we wanted to limit cross posting. We, 
the group members, did not want content based 
restrictions. That is, we did not want posts 
to be censored.  We only wanted to limit cross 
posting.

This decision was reached by a process of 
discussion and a vote.

We also found one poor sucker to do the hard 
work of implementing our wishes. Andrew has 
that job. Any power he has is simply power 
to do what he is told. He cannot censor 
because that is not the job he has been given.

He does a great job, and stands out as one of 
the really likeable and unflappable people on 
the group. Witness how mildly he responded to 
the accusations of censorship. I reckon we did 
well to let Andrew take on this task. So while 
I am at it-thanks very much, Andrew.

Cheers-Chris