Dear All,
Staying with the bionet newsgroup is fine with me and I am willing to become
the moderator, that is the spam deleter, when someone can give me
instructions on how arrange that. I checked the BIONET website and it
appears to me that one has to opt for becoming the moderator whilst setting
up the newsgroup account. I did not figure out how to become moderator of an
existing group when it is setup in an unmoderated fashion only having a
discussion leader, in this case James Woods.
Bart
"Athel Cornish-Bowden" <athel at ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote in message
news:v03007802b81ab9b682cf@[10.234.32.112]...
> Bart van Rotterdam wrote,
> >
> >together. I know that Athel is the moderator of the news group
>> Not true: there is NO moderator. There is a discussion leader (John Woods)
> but he hasn't contributed to the news group since I started following it,
> i.e. for more than 5 years. What happened was that Paul Schlosser, about
> three years ago, organized a vote to see if there was a majority in favour
> of moderation. There was, though only a very small one (7 to 6 or
something
> like that), and Paul volunteered to organize it; I said that I didn't
want
> to organize it myself but that I would be glad to assist Paul and fill in
> for him when he was absent. He said OK, but not until after the summer.
> However, the summer passed and we never heard again from him. (I don't
> think his web site, once quite active, has been touched for about 4
years).
> Meanwhile the spam became much less abundant, we all relaxed, forgot about
> moderation, and worried more about heresies coming from Bulgaria (all the
> stuff coming from Pentcho Valev outweighed all the efforts of the
> spammers). However, there is no reason not to open the discussion again. I
> agree that now we have more about Asian teens and making $$$$ fast than we
> do about metabolic control.
> >
> >I think we will just have to wait and see how the community reacts. So
far
> >only you and Douglas did.
>> Sorry about this: although I do little teaching now, it so happens that
> such teaching as I do do in 2001 occupies most of 16th November, so this
> has not been a week for chatting on the news group. To answer in brief,
I'm
> basically in favour of the suggestion, but would like to see more
> discussion.
>> athel
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> Athel Cornish-Bowden
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