From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 15 1997 - 08:24:22 CST
In local.usenet tale@vix.com (David C Lawrence) wrote:
>Wny not just stick with poster? Because it's more natural than
>calling a human moderator "a gateway", so it makes it an easier
>concept for people to grasp.
>Perhaps the defintion of "poster" should have a final sentence that
>says something akin to, 'This is usually the "author", but can be, for
>example, the moderator of a newsgroup who has received the submission
>via email from the original author.'
Yes, that would help. But having done that, you still do not need
"author", apart from its natural use as an English word.
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