From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 14 1997 - 05:47:12 CST
In local.usenet Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz> wrote:
> An "author" is the person or software that composes the body of
> the article and decides where and how it will be posted.
> A "poster" is the person or software that takes the finished
> article and prepares it for submission to the news stream.
I am still far from convinced that we need both of these terms at all. Why
not just stick with "poster".
And answering someone else's query about moderators, a moderator is really
some form of gateway, insofar as he may have to munge and manipulate until
the format is right.
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