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   From: stauffer@usfamily.net   
      
   DonJan wrote:   
   > I there a way to delete nonscientific mail from sci.optics? Most of   
   > the postings are trash. Can we have an editor? I'll voluntier.   
      
   If the present group is an unmoderated group and you want to change the   
   status to moderated, we need to follow the Usenet procedures, which   
   include a discussion period and then a call for a vote. There is a   
   newsgroup that discusses how to make these changes.   
      
   If you DO change it moderators, please make sure there are a couple of   
   co-moderators. One of my favorite moderated scientific groups, on   
   aerodynamics and aeronautics, died because there was a single moderator   
   and no co-moderators.  The first moderator retired and something   
   happened so that she wasn't on net anymore and group died for awhile.   
   Someone got it restarted, but without a co-moderator, something happened   
   to that moderator and group has been dead for a couple of years now.   
   Frequent posters before it died just don't know how to restart it.   
      
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