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Brava,

elizabear! Let's pray it works - or the sulky ones go off and find a new ballfield.

Greetings,

I created the sca-east mailing list about 15 years ago to be a place where people from all over the kingdom could easily communicate with each other and share information.

Unfortunately, in the last few years, the list has all too often become a toxic and unpleasant place. Many people have left the list because of this atmosphere, while others have been warned away from joining at all. I'm afraid that's my fault, for not being a more aggressive moderator.

It must change, and it will.

Effective Friday morning, 11/13, the sca-east list will be off the air for three days.

On Monday morning, 11/16, the list will return under new conduct rules. They will be clearly outlined, and anyone who does not wish to follow them is welcome to unsubscribe or have it done for them. In general, unpleasant behaviors which were tolerated in the past will no longer be acceptable. Everyone who exhibits common courtesy and maintains a reasonable tone should find this a more congenial place. There are specific behaviors which I will call out, but the list will not be exhaustive, nor should it be.

If you wish to comment on this, please reply to me privately. I will probably not respond, but I will read all messages.

Thank you.
-Yelizaveta

Oh bravo. I think she overestimates her own fault, though. She cannot be responsible for other people's bad behavior, and failing to stop the bad behavior of others is only so much of a fault.

I am sorry it had to come to this, but she is making a good move.

Regards,

Iheronimus

This makes me happy, and will probably get me to rejoin again.

I'm quite interested to see what these new rules will be, and what behaviors have been seen as the issue. I have a higher tolerance for argumentation than some, perhaps than most, and recognize a difference between "debate" and "flamage" -- there is a substantial cadre of our club that doesn't. But I suppose that makes me Part Of The Problem. Oh well, each to their own taste. It's

elizabear's party and her rules, with which I will do my best to comply.

Wonderful! I hope it works.

Ha!
"If you can't play nicely with your toys, Mama will take them away."

There was a series in the Cathy cartoon about "this country doesn't need a President, it needs a mother." There's a lotta truth in that.

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