RJ> This looks ominous!  Anyone out there been in touch with Pamela
 RJ> recently?  Do we nee to "elect" a new moderator?  Last year this
It is mildly ominous.  I haven't heard from or of our moderator lately.  We 
"CANNOT" "elect" a moderator.  If neither the moderator nor someone to whom 
she's given the elist password to, doesn't reregister the echo with the 
"Elist" within the appointed amount of time and a grace period, it drops 
first off the elist, and then off the backbone.  
In theory.  
In practice, large parts of the backbone may continue it for quite a while.  
After another few months it becomes fair game for anyone to elist themselves 
as moderator.  Once it's back in the elist it's fairly easy/fast to get it 
back onto the backbone.
To make a long story short, whoever here knows how to get ahold of the 
moderator needs to do so and nicely, pretty please, ask her to not only 
either send in the elist update (or have someone else do so) or pass on the 
password ... but to also post here that it's been done so the worriers don't 
panic.
OTOH, she might have already done it. 
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