> *** Quoting Sharon Price from a message to Mark Probert ***
 > SP> I'm not volunteering (yet) mind you, I just want to know what a 
 > SP> moderators duties and quilifications are.  Does one need techical
 > SP> knowledge of computers and need to be an expert on ADHD?  Or could
 > SP> any schmuck, such as myself, do it?
 > SP> Just curious,
 > A moderator (should/usually, not REQUIRED) reads the messages
 > in the echo and if there are off-topic message(s) deals with
 > the problem, either by warning the person that their messages
 > are off-topic for the echo or in more severe cases remove the
 > person from the echo.  To remove a person from an echo you
 > have to know how FidoNet works, so a moderator SHOULD
 > understand the basics of FidoNet.
 > In other words, the moderator makes the rules/guidelines for
 > an echo and then enforces those rules/guidelines.
 > The current moderator for this echo has not posted a single
 > message in the 6 months I have read this echo, and almost let
 > the echo expire, so as I said the above is not REQUIRED (but
 > that is what moderators are SUPPOSED to do).
 > The only real REQUIREMENT for a moderator of a FidoNet echo
 > is that the person maintain the EchoList list entry of their
 > echo(s).  To do this the person must understand the basics of
 > FidoNet and the Backbone and the EchoList, and the person
 > must have access to netmail or an Internet e-mail account to
 > be able to send messages to the EchoList 'robot' to maintain
 > the entry for their echo(s).
 > --- Telegard v3.03.b02/mL
I have no knowledge of FidoNet, so I wouldn't be able to handle it.
But, please, SOMEONE, step forward and volunteer!  I'm beginning to
rely on this echo for emotional support, and so are many others, I
suspect....
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