> From: J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I find myself retroactively interested in this thread. The tone of > one of my lists has begun to suffer becoming somewhat caustic and > aggressive, far from the professional slightly chummy yet formal > attitude it had (and I took so long building). Based on your description, it sounds like both you and the other person both have some degree of conflict of interest with the list itself. Is your community commenting on (and objecting to) the change in tone or is it just you? And if the latter, are you sure it isn't because of your other venture? No offense intended, but without more details or lurking on the list, it might be difficult to offer a more precise evaluation. On one of my own lists, we have had an evolution over time. Some of our better (and more technically competent) posters have gotten tired of having their expertise questioned and moved on to other venues for the subject. And in many cases, it wasn't intended to be criticism, it was just a free-flowing discussion in which assumptions were not always the same. To use a simplified example, if every time a poster writes 'The car is blue', someone questions whether their definition of blue is the same as someone else's, after a while the first poster gets tired of it. -- Mike Nolan
