On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:59:56PM -0700, Gregory Hicks wrote:
You know, as the former editor/moderator of the Info-IBMPC Digest list for a fair number of years, and not having subscribed to the namedroppers list, I frequently edited the content of postings (if only to make them more readable and/or to tone down rantings), rejected others (sometimes with an explanation of how to make it more suitable for publication, sometimes without one. Usually with an explanation though...)
Sometimes I ran the changes by the submitter, sometimes not... Depended on how much 'editing' I had to do.
I don't think the point is necessarily what a moderator has rights to do. The point is, on mailing lists of IETF working groups, if a message fits the charter then there is no reason not to post it, with minor editing if necessary. It is a conflict of interest if the moderator removes commentary about himself *if* the commentary is in keeping with the charter. The question is, of course, how strictly is the charter interpreted and is their prejudice against the poster who is having his posts moderated. Irregardless of the above opinion, this is not a topic for NANOG and should be moved to nanog-offtopic. Tim