On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:02:54 +0000, Chris French
 wrote:

>In message , 
>Sara Merriman  writes
>>In article ,
>> Tom Crispin <kije.remove@this.bit.freeuk.com.munge> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It seems that all posters, by default, go onto the watch-list.  Some
>>> then get transferred to the pass-list.
>>>
>>> I am not going to trawl through all the old debate, but I think this
>>> is the opposite of what had been said during the charter discussion.
>>
>>My memory disagrees with yours. My recollection is that everyone would
>>be moderated to begin with and then people would be moved to a whitelist
>>where they will stay unless/until it is deemed necessary to move them
>>off it again.
>>
>Yup, that is my recollection.
>
>Not that it would really matter, the mods can modify these processes as 
>they see fit anyway.


Absolutely - as we are now finding out.

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