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I think the rules are good ones, and praise to the moderators. It may be that this is already taken for granted as procedure by the moderators, but if I could make one more suggestion, which I think is very important: When a poster is judged by the moderators to have engaged in "personal abuse" or "bigotry" (categories that are obviously not "objective" in nature), that the moderators *inform the list* that the member's post(s) has been blocked, or that the member in question has been removed from the list. This is important, I think, to help check arbitrary "personal abuse" on the part of moderators, who are human, after all, and not necessarily immune to having personal resentments interpolate dispassionate judgment. In all frankness, I think we did have a taste last month of such unfortunate alloyage. In this way, other members can then more easily survey and judge the fairness of the moderators' decisions in situations of extremis. Kent _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com