Gang, Having stood on the sidelines of many mailing list flame fests, the best thing to do when someone starts a flaming is often counterintuitive.
All attempts to be rational and sane with the involved persons will get you nowhere as flame fests occur between people with irreconciable opinions. Responding to posts will only make it worse which is what the offending posters want. Once it has been make clear that someone is trolling for flames, ignore them. Feeding the trolls by responding will not work! If you want, setup a kill filter for those who offend you but keep in mind that this measure is not 100% effective as people will respond to their posts anyway. Restricting the user from posting to the list will not help, they will simply sign up for one of the freely available email accounts at yahoo, hotmail or netscape. If you want the problem to stop, hit the delete key and ignore it. It only takes a second and will eventually go away. If something ticks you off personally, respond personally and not to the list. Hope this helps, Dave
