Okay, I think there's more email flying *off* the list than on. First of all, Noctifer, MikeF, you guys are in charge of sussing out other list providers, because I think GMAST *may* be due for a split into moderated and unmoderated, and the latter needs to be on YahooGroups or somewhere big that can afford real counsel. It's not a definite yet, but that's what a lot of people are advocating (at least, a lot of people have advocated giving the argumentative people somewhere else to do it), and it'd be nice if we could do it in an orderly, polite fashion. Second, if GMAST stays here and stays "unmoderated" (excepting the web archives, which are "public" and therefore subject to a little more legal mumbo-jumbo, so I've removed the potentially illegal material), we need a way to determine when someone *does* get kicked off the island. Er, list. (I've never watched that show, so don't expect me to grok any references cleverer than that.) We said we'd only do it when the group at large wanted it, but while that sounds good on paper, it isn't so practical in, well, practice. It'd turn into a big character-bashing witch hunt. So, what's a good barometer of when someone is more harmful than helpful to the list? (This is something that will be needful for the non-Phoenyx GMAST, if it comes to that.) Without having it turn into a list- eating slanging match? Third, I've removed the questionable posts from the web archives, including any posts that quoted the questionable ones, and probably some that just *might* have been quotes. This doesn't affect what anyone receives, just the archives. And the stuff is still there in raw form, it's just not published on the web, the "public" part being the place we have the most exposure, legally speaking. And I'm getting tired of doing the work, so if GMAST suddenly stops responding tomorrow, it's because somebody got out of control and I don't have time to deal with it; consider it a cooling-off period until after Nathan's birthday party tomorrow night. It's his first, and I'm not going to mess up preparations to deal with someone's adolescent tantrums. -- Karen J. Cravens (silver@phoenyx.net) ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
