Peter Constable wrote:

>
> > From: qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qalam@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> > Peter T. Daniels
>
> > The moderator of a moderated writing systems list ought to be
> > knowledgeable about writing systems.
>
> I have no opinion about whether any additional lists should be created,
> but I will comment on this: the requirements of a moderator for any list
> are that they know at least enough about a topic, but not necessarily
> more, to tell when discussion is off topic, when participants are being
> unnecessarily and unconstructively controversial, and to be able to
> distinguish between valid questions / comments and trolls. I'm suspect
> that any of the regular contributors to this list have enough knowledge
> of writing systems for that.

The one who volunteered hasn't displayed that.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...