Re: [Mpls] list manager thank you

[Brobson34]

Most everyone on this list knows that I am a close personal friend of Mr. Brauer's, so my seconding of Mr. Wilde's "thank you" will not come as a great surprise. However, what list members don't know is that the nasty tone and non-Minneapolis focus this list has taken in recent weeks has weighed heavily on Mr. Brauer and has caused him to very seriously consider abandoning his work on the list altogether.

I am revealing this without Mr. Brauer's blessing or foreknowledge, in the hopes that list members readopt the focus and civility that has made the list so successful in recruiting a wide range of opinions over the past couple of years. I have been guilty of twisting the knife in recent posts where I thought I had a particularly righteous argument--once in response to Mr. Wilde and his statements about Intermedia Arts, but also on threads about terrorism and comparisons of Mayors Belton and Guiliani. For what it's worth, I apologize to those on the receiving end of those posts and pledge to limit my inflammatory rhetoric as much as my abrasive nature allows. I  encourage members to remind me offlist when I stray from that pledge.

Put simply, the long-term future of the list is problematic so long as vitriol and non-Minneapolis subjects hold sway. I encourage those who value this list to keep that in mind when they post.

Britt Robson
Lyndale