Subj : New Pascal files
To : Scott Adams
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Sep 08 2006 01:15 am
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BF> Sigh! What does it take to get rid of those completely boring robot
BF> postings in here? A new moderator, or what?
BF> When will the next moderator election be held? :)
SA> I've been in this echo since the '80s. I've NEVER
SA> recalled a moderator election....thinking...thinking...
SA> might have been one in teh PASCAL echo but not this one...
SA> can't recall not one.
ml> there has never been an election of any sort for moderator of the
ml> PASCAL or PASCAL_LESSONS echos... the outgoing moderator(s) have
ml> selected their replacements in much the same way that the snooze
ml> editor is selected...
SA> Yeah. I never recall really much moderating or no elections
SA> since I've been in the echo going back to...19..1983?..'84?
SA> Something like that. Before then unsure. I'm sure if enough
SA> folks complain to the guys doing the blatant ads they'd stop
SA> with enough of a voice by the readers.
i don't recall when i first started reading PASCAL but i do remember that the
moderator was a fellow from OZ or NZ... i can't remember his name but murdock
or murdoch is what floats foremost in my forebrain... i also recall a report a
few months after he turned over moderatorship to the current moderator... that
report was about (AH!) duncan's death... something about him being on an
extended trip and being involved in a car accident that killed him instantly...
i'm wanting to say that the trip was a "tour" of OZ or the US as well as saying
that the accident wasn't his fault... memory is trying to tell me that his
vehicle was hit by someone that ran a redlight or something very similar to
that...
SA> So let's call one! Or take over the elist entry :)
ml> ROTFL! seems to me that some might better look to how they came into
ml> their "office" before making waves in other's offices ;)
SA> Yep. I was just starting the revolution. I can hit the Next
SA> key. I personally don't care :) I'm just the brains you guys
SA> are the rebels.
SA> But I'll take the glory and treasure!
hahahahaha!! i hear ya there! sadly, though, i'm not quite the rebel that i
once was 20+ years ago O:)
