From: Ralph Babel (rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 12:39:42 CDT
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
>> Nobody but an *administrator* is _supposed_ to be issuing
>> a control message (except in alt.* and free.*, perhaps).
>> Except for cancels.
>
> Oh, in case anyone missed the previous discussion of this,
> this is not a general statement about how Usenet works,
> but rather a statement of personal opinion by Charles
> on something where he doesn't get the final say.
> (Well, unless it's actually just a meaningless statement
> trivially satisfied by declaring anyone who issues control
> messages for a hierarchy to be an administrator.) For
> example, anyone is welcome, so far as I'm concerned,
> to issue control messages in the Big Eight provided
> that they don't forge group-admin@isc.org.
Even though I usually consider "me too" messages a waste of
other people's precious time, let me say that I absolutely
agree with Russ here - if only to keep our "editor" from
claiming that this is just Russ's personal opinion shared
by no one else.