[Default] On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:21:51 -0000, "Mike Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::
>Bruce was hosting a number of mailing lists at the time, and felt it best to >set up a sort of code of conduct for them all. Nobody objected at the time, >until David Long (one of the people involved in the original setting up of >uk.rec.waterways) offended against one of Bruce's rules (I forget in what >way) and Bruce suspended him from the list. A number of members felt that >Bruce had gone over the top. This provoked another round of >flame war and lost us more subscribers. > >That's as I remember things. Others will probably remember them >differently. > You forgot to mention the automatic swearword-stopper with the American English dictionary, so you could say ar$e, but not ass! Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk (Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005)
