Re: list policies about vacation programs

[Berg Oswell]

Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> (specifically: [...] I've always wondered about: when a group of people
> on a list get into a topic and really start a lively conversation,
> someone invariably pops up and tells them all to shut up; it's as if
> they think the list is there to be subscribed to, but not really  used.
> [...])
 
        I don't understand it either; I've seen it go as far as spam 
complaints to ISPs.  Happened once on a list I used to run; I actually 
got nasty-grams from three different ISPs over an active discussion of 
something wholly on-topic for the list.