Can I make a suggestion about inappropriate postings which I GUARANTEE would help a lot?! Can we have a DESIGNATED WHINER, or small list of whiners, who has a CANNED MESSAGE and the option to add some text specific to the message? And can take further suggestions of this sort so people can release that "this message was inappropriate" steam? Then every time someone posts something inappropriate we don't have to wade through 20 or 30 individual "That was inappropriate" messages often resulting in further discussion like oh no that's not the right list it should have been on THIS list ooops I got that address wrong here's the correction oh this one is probably good to use also for that topic can we stop posting URLS can we stop feeding the troll are we sure that's inappropriate yes it is I agree I agree too well maybe sometimes it's not inappropriate what if it involves...oh I think that's also inappropriate well I don't it belongs on...wouldn't this be a better mailing list for that topic oh yes you're right oops I typo'd that URL here's a correction ok this one also who died and made you king I dunno who died and made you king don't feed the troll i just want to say there's too much inappropriate traffic on this list yeah me too too much inappropriate traffic yeah me too I'm considering dropping the list because of the traffic yeah me too why can't that topic go onto this mailing list that's a good list but this might be better oops I typo'd the address here's a correction can we get back on topic is that operational i just thought of something funny to interject in this inappropriate thread how about this on youtube oops the url got cut off here's the corrected url can you tinyurl that can we please get back to some operational topic don't feed the troll blah blah BLAH blah blah BLAH blah blah... It's harsh of me to say, but something I've found in around 25 years of these groups is that there's a certain type of person, and it's a fairly common person, who never has anything to contribute (which is fine) but one inappropriate message and it's like taunting mean cops, watch out, they're all over it and suddenly get chatty. Scolding the vast unknown seems to be their specialty. And their imagined target is just about the least likely to read their fantasy scolding. Too many cops. Way more "that was inappropriate" messages than inappropriate messages. There, now *I* did it. No, I don't volunteer, but maybe one of the cops can. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Login: Nationwide Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*