Thanks, Brian, for your mature and sensible comments. See my other post, any ideas on caches we can visit, esp. at night? Trisha > I would prefer not to ever have to do that. There are currently 155 > people on > the list, and the fact that is runs as smooth as it does speaks > volumes to > the character to the participants of this mailing list. > From time to time a message come though the list that I just cringe at > while > I'm reading it. Sometimes the person that sent it had a bad day, > sometimes > they have a valid point that we just would prefer not to hear, and > much as we > don't like it, the extreme messages as what keeps the list going. If > you > follow the traffic on the list, you will notice that it dies down to > nothing > but a congratulations message from time to time, till someone posts a > rather > extreme message, and that will kick off all sorts of converstions. > The topic > will often times split sevral times and will continue to several days, > and in > the end most of the messages are good hearted discussion. > > I tend to let people speak their minds, even when they are speaking > on a > subject contrary to my own personal beliefs. Who's to say who is right > and > wrong. I could see both sides of the story between Trisha and Scott, > and I > felt they were both right to some degree. I would have prefered that > it > didn't get quite so heated, but it also seems to have ended on an good > note. > Trisha has updated her log to be more clear and Scott gave the > requested > apology. > > I think the only time I would ever kick someone off the list is if > they were > presenting a true problem to the list, being generally disruptive, or > sending > messages that were psysically harmful to the list server or it > recipients. > > Brian Cluff > Team Snaptek > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > listserv@azgeocaching.com > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~