"GS" == Greg Stein
writes:
GvR> If Marcus and Gandalf don't moderate quickly the community can GvR> oust them. JH> A painful process. Vladimir/Gandalf seems to have disappeared JH> completely. (The original message in this thread bounced when I JH> sent it to him.) The only way to add new moderators without JH> Marcus's help is to have a new RFD/CFV process. It would be like JH> creating the newsgroup all over again, except we'd have to JH> convince the moderator of news.announce.newsgroups that the JH> current moderator was unfit first. GS> Nevertheless, adding more moderators is the "proper" answer to GS> the problem. Even if it is difficult to get more moderators into GS> the system, there doesn't seem to be a better alternative. Proper is not necessarily the same as possible. We may fail in an attempt to add a moderator without cooperation from Marcus. GS> Altering the mailing list gateway will simply serve to create GS> divergent announcement forums. If only one of the forums works, this isn't a big problem. Jeremy