>MichelF has told us his plan of action going forward. True, he did not lay out every permutation and combination that could arise, but he was clear nonetheless.
>Why can't you just accept that - especially when he said that there will be NO NEGOTIATION on this issue??????

I figure it was an attempt to resolve the issues in a civil and democratic manner before the, or instead of, shutting down the chatter.

>As regards your idea that the thread originator could be a moderator (one of two (or more, I suppose)), hasn't the originator always had that 'right'. Seems to me that an originator was always in a position to further explain positions or refute mis-interpretations, etc. Is there really a need for formalizing that???

I got an impression that Peter's idea was to formalize it programmatically, i.e. giving some actual powers to the originator, which do not exist now.