[Leica] kicking people off the list

[Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>]

I'm the dictator of the Leica Users list; I decide who stays and who goes. 
In its entire 8-year history I've only booted two people from it. Mostly I 
am willing to tolerate rudeness in small doses. The people that I kicked 
off both had the characteristics of being unpleasant, prolific, and 
combative. If a person is rude but doesn't post very much, and if others 
succeed in ignoring him, then it's really a waste of energy to boot him off 
the list. We're all smart enough to use manual-focus cameras and so we 
should be able to figure out for ourselves whose messages are to be 
ignored. To be a candidate for expulsion, a person must be very prolific 
and also be successful at baiting many other people into fighting with him.

Most mail-reading programs give you the ability to robo-delete messages 
from certain senders. Use this feature.

Please do not send to the list any suggestions for who should or shouldn't 
be on it. Send them to me. I may or may not pay attention, but I promise I 
will respond politely.

On the other hand, the standards of rudeness in this forum are fairly mild. 
Most of the other email lists that I deal with are related to the Episcopal 
(Anglican) church, where they are busily fighting about things related to 
sex, sexuality, and gender. That can get really really rude.

Brian Reid (probably spelled Rood in the middle ages)