You are absolutely correct. On a different list I subscribe to (Holistic
health related) we had three people banned recently but after a few appeals
to them directly to stop. They did not and got worse and hence they were
banned permanently.

We suspect they were teenagers looking for thrills but after several days of
abusive emails several people contacted the administrator and they were
banned from the list. One signed up again under a new email address and was
banned a second time.

Yes, we all do know what is right and what is not. In some private groups
and after a few beers perhaps I find some jokes funny, but on a public forum
I prefer to keep to the topic. For me, this list is about Vanagon related
problem solving and sharing and helping.

William Polowniak

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Stebbins" <MSTEBBIN@MSVU1.MSVU.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: filtering out off-color jokes, rants, etc - sort of long

> I disagree with the delete-key being a solution for
> offending email to this list (Peter's post).  I'd suggest
> deleting the sender (of offending emails) from this list.
> Yes we all have the right to free speech, but we all have
> the right to ostracize people we find offending.  It is not a
> question of "rights" but rather of who's rights are to
> prevail.  In the past folks have been dropped form the list
> (for being offending) and I (for one) suggest that we keep
> up that policy.  We are here to discuss vanagons, not to
> discuss people, guns, potatoes, prostitutes or arabs or
> jews or conservative or liberals.  This is not jokes.com,
> not prejudice.com, not insults.com,  not misogynist.com
> It's vanagon.com so that's what we discuss here.  m2cw,
> Malcolm
>
> > I usually try to stay out of discussions like this, but I
> > just felt I had to give my input.
>
> me too!!