WHO ARE YOUR MODERATORS

[Jerry D Mead]

Jackie has appointed me Senior Moderator (whatever that means) and three other chaps (for now) will join me as fellow moderators. As webmistress (sounds kind of naughty, doesn't it?), Jackie will always have ultimate authority...it is her site, after all, and therefore her legal and moral responsibility. I'm assured that hers will be an always benevolent autocracy.

Oh! I am Jerry Mead...a wine journalist for more than 30 years. I will post a more complete bio and ask the other moderators to do the same.

The other three moderators will be Dr. Randy Buckner (aka Bucko), Jim Wallace and Robert Wood (aka woodman).

Buckner is a family physician, enthusiastic wine consumer/collector, weekly wine columnist and frequenter of many wine bulletin boards including AOL's and others.

Jim Wallace runs an Internet wine retail operation, is Chief Steward at the New World International Wine Competition and has done just about everything else, at one time or another, that there is to do in the wine trade.

Robert Wood is also an enthusiastic consumer/collector, major AOL wine board contributor and a behind-the-scenes planner of this board.

Moderators will eventually have the authority/ability to delete or edit messages. As a matter of policy, that ability will be rarely used other than for obvious libel, the grossest of language, or to put out the occasional flame war...we want this to stay a friendly place for one and all...for the most basic of beginning wine fanciers to the most serious and dedicated of oenophiles.

Check us out when our light bulb is lit...we may have something to say from time to time.

JDM aka The Wine Curmudgeon, who occasionally signs off TBC (to be continued),