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Subject: Getting personal

The purpose of this mailing list is not to attack people or ideas and  
the point of having a moderator is to weed out posts that don't fit  
the mailing list's guidelines.   For example, the moderator should  
show a little tough love and toss postings that:

1) Make inflammatory statements or state claims without providing some  
verifiable reference
2) attack a person or a person's credibility or work
3) contain material generally not pertaining to the goal of the  
mailing list
4) Are of such adversarial tone that further discussion would be  
inhibited or unproductive
5) Criticize an idea without providing thoughtful alternatives
6) Are obviously written in haste and should be returned so the author  
can have a second chance to improve the post

Apologies must be forthcoming when a mistake is made.  I apologize in  
advance if there is already a significant filtering of postings and  
the recent ones are accidental.  But a moderator can enlist people to  
help moderate using guidelines.  Larger lists do that all the time to  
keep the flow going while people are busy.   Moderator(s) can save  
hundreds of people from wasting time on bad postings.  The recent  
bashing of people on this list simply keeps good people from  
participating and allows a few bullies to rule the subject matter.    
Can we clean it up and stick to finding solutions and encouraging  
participation and the spreading of useful knowledge?

Paul Miller
N357V Legacy RG 186