From: Lloyd Zusman Date: 2004-08-31T09:41:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Web Hosts Carl Youngblood writes: > I'm sorry; I don't think I worded things very well. I see this as a > very infrequent occurrence and something that would only be used for > very blatant and annoying cases where everyone was basically in > agreement. I don't see it as some oligarchy of the regulars. > > That said, I'm not all that enthused about my own idea--I have no > great attachment to it and it was merely a casual remark that I don't > intend to defend vigorously. So I am completely open to the > possibility that it was a bad idea. Well, if you think about it, your idea was pretty much implemented on its own this time. Several of us replied disapprovingly here in the forum to the offending party. I also spoke to him in private email, and I would assume that others did so, as well. The result is that now we don't see the problem posts any more. This was an ad hoc initiative in its purest form, and it seems to have worked. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com God bless you.