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Skriven 2004-12-06 19:36:44 av Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
   Kommentar till text 2856 av Robert Couture (1:229/2000)
Ärende: Science 1/2
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 BF>>    Here's what to look for:

 BF>>    By: Moderator, 2:2/2
 BF>>    To: All
 BF>>    Re: Rules for FIDONEWS

 RC> How is that reliable?

 RC>    By: Moderator, 1:229/2000
 RC>    To: All
 RC>    Re: Rules for FIDONEWS

 RC> Look for this next month ;)

 RC> Now, who would be the moderator in this case?  How would

Not taking sides... just looking at the presented info...

As for users, they would have a tough time in determining who the moderator
really was.  As to any mail system, common sense would say that the one who has
been regularly, and in a consistant fashion, posting the rules right along is
the actual moderator, and the one posting the other rules is playing games and
trying to hijack the echo.  It's not like there aren't archives of messages to
go back through and see who -has- been posting the rules and has been
recognized as the moderator prior to the imposter doing it.

Now, I would say that dispute over moderatorship is a big problem, and
disruptive to the network as far as an individual echo is concerned.  For those
who follow EP1 (for those I mentioned, I wonder if this looks familiar:

"In the case where more than one  individual claims to be the
conference moderator and no agreement can  be reached,  the  ZEC
may  order  the conference retired and  ban the further use of the
specific conference name. Failure of the individuals to retire the
conference name shall be deemed excessively annoying behavior."

Of course this has no real weight, as the idea of any *EC, at any level,
structure is grossly outdated due to the mail moving practices of today anyway,
but it does provide the logical resolution to such a problem if it can't be
resolved... the tag be retired, each disputing moderator tag another echo each
for the purpose, and whoever follows who to either of the new echoes, it is
what it is, and so be it.

It sure would be a pity... a real shame... to ever see something like that
happen to this echo.

Phil

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