In a message dated 11/6/2009 6:28:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, effeietsanders@gmail.com writes:
except that this happens in many threads and is a general problem coming back allt he time.>>
At the point at which any particular person is no longer interested in reading a thread, they should stop reading it. Then the thread can die a natural death, and no one needs to get upset at a few messages a day appearing in their mailbox. As you can see the thread died all by itself. On soc.genealogy.medieval, some of the vicious cat-calling threads go on and on for a few hundred postings, and get quite nasty. But they all die eventually. And these are between scholars (self-proclaimed at times).
Will