As a long time lurker I too have grown tired of off-topic posting.  I
think my use of the delete key has probably deleted posts I wanted to
read.  I see the list of gerry.vanagon.com posts and I just get rid of
them all.  I applaud Ben being willing to take moderating the list on.

Jeff Olson
Martin, SD

Jim Johnston wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I say go for it.  If you ready, willing, and able, you have my support...
>
> I'm sure you'll do a fine job.  I subscribe to the notion "you can't please
> everyone".  And, in my worklife, I've moved up within a company (not saying
> this is the same) and without doubt, both times this happened, I heard
> "well, you used to do this".  I let them know that I don't really care about
> then, and this is now...
>
>