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[Char Jackson]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:56:12 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-me@other.invalid> wrote:

>Typo. I meant "moderator", of course.
>
>On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 156:27 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>
>> In the local context (newsgroups), "moderato" is a technical term.

I thought you were displaying your knowledge of Latin.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 201:49 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:56:12 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> <not-me@other.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Typo. I meant "moderator", of course.
>>
>>On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 156:27 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>>
>>> In the local context (newsgroups), "moderato" is a technical term.
>
> I thought you were displaying your knowledge of Latin.

Nah, it's all Greek to me...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

 

[TLC]

So, you're saying that: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and
quacks like a duck, according to Usenet it's probably a pigeon. Where
can I find the official dictionary of "newsgroup/discussion forum jargon"?

On 9/22/2010 9:07 PM, Nil wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2010, TLC<TcNoSpam@sunlink.net> wrote in
> alt.windows7.general:
>
>> Again, semantics. You infer that there is a group moderator, but
>> the definition of the verb moderate is "to reduce the
>> excessiveness of; make less violent, severe, intense, or
>> rigorous". In this case, the news server appears to be the
>> moderator.
>
> That is not what "moderator" means in newsgroup/discussion forum
> jargon. You are misusing the term.

 

[Nil]

On 23 Sep 2010, TLC <TcNoSpam@sunlink.net> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> So, you're saying that: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck
> and quacks like a duck, according to Usenet it's probably a
> pigeon. Where can I find the official dictionary of
> "newsgroup/discussion forum jargon"?

You're not going to find anyone who understands how internet discussion
groups work that will agrees with you, so you can stop trying to
shoehorn inappropriate definitions into the term.

Your delete key is not a moderator.

 

[Char Jackson]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 086:58 -0400, TLC <TcNoSpam@sunlink.net> wrote:

>So, you're saying that: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and
>quacks like a duck, according to Usenet it's probably a pigeon. Where
>can I find the official dictionary of "newsgroup/discussion forum jargon"?

Maybe you should start here:
<http/www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/>

 

[Nil]

On 23 Sep 2010, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> Maybe you should start here:
><http/www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/>

And here:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/moderated-ng-faq/