mcgeer%sirius.berkeley.edu@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (09/29/86)
>When JOSH was the moderator of POLI-SCI there were complaints of him >dominating the discussion by insisting on having the last word in >almost every debate that he was involved in. What ended up happening >was that many people didn't feel that it was a discussion anymore and >stopped sending in their contributions. Drivel. JOSH postpended replies to some contributions, including mine. He did so because he felt that it would be more readable than appending a separate contribution from himself. I think most readers would agree. If any writer requested that any contribution be run without JOSH's afterword, JOSH invariably respected the request; if memory serves, JOSH publically announced this policy, and then further said that if any writer wished all of his contributions run without afterword, he would do so. This strikes me as an eminently fair and reasonable position. I sincerely doubt that anyone can make a valid claim that JOSH took unfair advantage of his moderator's position. -- Rick -------