Les -- I agree with Colin. The list ebbs and flows. Perhaps if it has indeed become "worse," it is about to flower into something even better. For me, the discussions of music (and especially of new and current music, Joni's and others) are the most interesting. However, I have greatly valued the insights and links that people have offered about the war. Les, I think your stewardship has been excellent and I see no need for you to change the way you are handling things.
Best, David > All these years, I have felt Les to be an excellent list host and this > list to be a magical place. If the paremeters and rules are changed, it > will be lost forever. We, the members, have always more or less decided > on how this place is. Most of the time our decisions have been such that > we have had a warm family like atmosphere. Even the best of families argue. > We each have a peronal responsibilty to write in such a way that it > makes the list a place we want to be part of. I feel that 'bowing out' > abdicates that responsibilty. > i do not feel that expressing contentious ideas ( and most ideas are to > someone!) is bad or wrong. People are responsible for how they react to > them. Such ideas can be expressed, and mostly are, without personal > attacks. It is when the ideas are challenged in the form of personal > abuse that the trouble starts. > > In the end, I fear for this list greatly now. Not because of the > turbulence here recently, but because of the calls for contol measures. > Once that starts, the list is finished as it is and will become just > another fan list. > > we are each responsible. > > bw > colin
