Douglas Barnes wrote:
1) I've known Sandy for a couple of years, and I trust him to use good judgement as a moderator. It will be important to develop guidelines so that the job can be rotated, but it's also important that the moderator be someone who doesn't have any major axe to grind. Sandy has his personal likes and dislikes, but I don't think he'll ever stoop to tossing out opinions that he disagrees with.
Wishful thinking, Doug. Sandy will take an emotional (non-objective) position on an issue, and argue it beyond any reasonable limit. I wish I had all his replies to things I've said - you'd see what I mean. Not to promote anyone who I might not be a friend of, but, there are people on this list who are "well respected" who are light-years ahead of Sandy in areas that are important for a list moderator. Maybe Gilmore should have publicly announced for a moderator, and then let the subscribers pick....