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[Kevin McCann <address@concealed>]

There are cases when you need to put aside the ethical issue, at least for 
a time. There is a broad range of list purposes. And the make-up of the 
memberships are equally diverse. Moderated-edit can be very useful for 
moderators who are engaging in community building and need to do 
hand-holding with members who are not accustomed to mailing lists. I work 
with a number of list moderators who are essentially community-building 
facilitators and they find moderated-edit to be essential as a means of 
introduction, establishing list purpose and flavor, etc, but all the while 
allowing the messages to still have the original posters address. It is a 
useful feature when used properly. If moderators use the featur eto make 
whole-sale changes to the meaning of a posters message, it becomes obvious, 
members get turned off and the list fails anyway.

Cheers,
Kevin





At 03:22 PM 01/05/03 -0400, xavier renaut wrote:

> hello,
>
> is there a way to edit messages waiting for moderation ?
>
> it might be useful to let moderators edit the messages for
> spelling mistakes. (especially in french)
>
> on the other hand, there is the ethical problem of editing
> and possibly rewriting words of another person.
>
> has this issue already been raised ?
>
> thanks
>
> ps : a solution for the moderator could be to cut/paste the message
> and post it on his own....
>
> --
> xavier renaut, 514 906 1212 x226