In a message dated 6/12/02 5:17:24 PM, jboldway@BEE.NET writes:

<< I was on the 2400 Fulton St.
(Jefferson Airplane/Starship/Tuna) list about 6 years ago and it was
destroyed by bickering and infighting by people who had no tolerance. This
is the Vanagon list, administered by Tom C, who really does not need all
these problems - he does it as a service. Sometimes I think he's forced to
be a babysitter of a few hundred people who are supposedly adults. If it is
NOT VANAGON RELATED and NOT ON SUBJECT then please think of P-mailing.
We've got another thread going where somebody is insulted by what somebody
else said and both feel the need to reply to the list, not each other. Tom
already had to suspend somebody over their inciting remarks >>

I don't agree with what you have said in the least.  First of all, the
destruction of anything dealing with a group as soulless as the Jefferson
Airstarship is a service to mankind.  Secondly, the list administrator is
only burdened to the degree to which he fells the need to control something.
Lastly, and most importantly, in our country, the Greatest Nation on Earth,
to deny a man his voice is the grandest display of intolerance imaginable.

Richie