William Vannerson wrote: > Wright's grin is because the killies list is not quite like the > Apisto list, or any other list for that matter. There is a high > noise to signal ratio with frequent and lengthy flame threads > by some very belligerent individuals, although *flames* > doesn't accurately describe the nature of these threads very > well. I, myself, have become embroiled in long, non-killifish > sidebars. > > In between there is great killie information from some very > knowledgeable and dedicated killie keepers, although the > list has lost several key people lately in response to political > issue involving the list manager and the AKA web master. Unfortunately this list has seen much the same (noise, flames, off-the-subject topics) in the past few days. I had thought about unsubscribing, but for the time being I will wait it out. I "moderate" my aquarium society's e'mail list. I enforced a guideline to determine if a message should be broadcasted: It must benefit club members (either the person sending, or the fifty-some receiving), and any person-to-person dialog is not publically broadcasted. - --Randy Carey