Joseph Fuerst

Sarah,

You are so creative! This offers a great way t o get perspective on this
situation.

Susan, who will have to wait 'til kidlets bedtime to get my thoughts out on
this.


IMHO, I think as list owner, you have every right to ban individuals from
the list. I know you don't want to be police chief and I understand that's
the whole gist of this list... no monitoring.
Let's say you own a bookstore and you sell all kinds of books (not that you
*like* all these kinds of books.. just that they are available to everybody
interested). You have tons of repeat customers... for years. You job is to
stock the store, etc. but you don't have to police the patrons... they're
folks who have come to your store with a purpose...to get information or
(buy books). All of a sudden, a new person enters the store and starts going
up to each patron and criticizing what they're reading. Some of them ignore
this person. Others walk away in a huff. One of them goes next door and
starts her *own* book store and takes some of the original patrons with her.
But there you are, still owner of the bookstore and watching it go down in a
pile of dust.. fast. This store has meant a lot to you in the past and you
recoginize it's also meant a lot to other people in town. Do you just sit
back behind the register and let this go on or do you ask the person(s)
causing the rukus to leave? IMHO, you have a job to do *if* you still care
about your 'store'.....

or are you looking for a reason to shut it down? (I'm hoping not!)
Sarah