On Forum Moderation

[Mike Parker]

On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 11:30:24 UTC, Tony wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 11:12:29 UTC, Rubn wrote:
>
>> What about self moderation? If I make an unprofessional 
>> comment and want to delete it? Will this be allowed now? I 
>> guess it's more of a feature request.
>
> The lack of an edit feature has been brought up before and it 
> was said that it doesn't exist because the forum is combined 
> with an email mailing list.

The authoratative database is an NNTP server. The mailing list is 
an interface to that, and so is the forum (though it maintains 
its own copy of the DB).