Mature, Friendly discussion?

Donavan Hall (dhall@ROUGE.PHYS.LSU.EDU)
Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:48:05 -0600

Members of the Percy-L mailing list:

Given that I am in the process of writing my dissertation I admit that I
haven't followed the discussion very closely lately. But I was disturbed
to find some unmannerly exchanges posted to the mailing list over the
weekend. This list technically does not have a moderator (I merely handle
the technical stuff), so I would like to take the opportunity to affirm
that the mission of this list is to provide a forum for productive,
uplifting and ulimately community building communication. Personally I
don't like to see name calling and destructive language in my mailbox. I
would also ask that the heated exchange be taken elsewhere as it is not
becoming to the spirit of the charter of this mailing list. If it is not
objectionable to the list members at large I would like it to be considered
as a matter of list policy that those who do not maintain a certain level
of decorum should be asked to leave the list. I am very sorry to see that
such a thing should have to be considered. (Note: I am not calling for a
discussion of this policy on the mailing list. Any who OBJECT to such a
policy should write to me personally at dhall@rouge.phys.lsu.edu.
Otherwise I will assume that this is not too "heavy-handed" of an approach
to handling such problems.)

Many thanks to those list members who have already exhorted us to move on
to more productive lines of discussion.

Thanks,
Donavan Hall
List Manager