I think the underlying point of is that THIS IS NOT THE FORUM to discuss
someone's liberal or conservative political ideology.  THIS IS THE FORUM
exchanging VANAGON information.  While some topic derailings will inevitably
occur, some due to a fault of my own, this still is a VANAGON list for
VANAGON topics.  We get a whole Friday to vent, sneer and jeer.

The idea of the silent list admin is great, but I feel that some
intervention is sorely needed, or we may lose some valuable list members.
Henceforth I leave this issue in Tom's hands and warm up my delete key a
bit.

Chris.