Earlier: There's quite a bit of call for ... stronger rule on wikien-l, and the listmods would be very happy to put this into action...

Peter Blaise ALWAYS responds: May I courteously suggest that those of us who have NO PROBLEM operating our own inbox filters, and our own scroll down arrow keys, and our own delete keys, probably outnumber the ones who call for someone else to do that kind of filtering for them.

More importantly, I object to ANYONE filtering my inbox of anything but spam for me under the guise that they are doing me a favor.

All I expect any moderator to do is prevent or delete spam, delete and warn about off topic posts (pretty much like spam, actually), and then relax and let me do my own reading, searching, sorting, and selecting.

There are many threads I am not interested in, however, I do not expect any moderator to delete those threads just because they don't suit my interests today. May I (perennially) suggest that others who feel burdened by threads that they are not interested in get over it. Scroll on.

However, if anyone, including a moderator, wants anyone else to write and contribute differently, please, by all means, set an example of the kinds of posts you prefer, and contact the person you find offensive on or off list to resolve the misunderstanding. Email is perennially accosted as delivering errant emotive messages, and banning has never resolved anything. We end up endlessly discussing the fine tuning of any banning rules, discussions which I find even more repulsive than the posts objected to in the first place!

Scroll on!