> Robin -- I hope not. And I think it doesn't have to. If this sort of thing > happened every week, I'd see a problem. But if it happens once every six > months or so, it can blow over fairly quickly. Um, I'm thinking about what happened on subsubpoetics when the shit hit the fan. > I moderated, for years, a very very contentious BB for news discussion, > which was one of the few places on the internet that lefties and righties > talked to each other. I actually did have to moderate it fairly tightly, > taking down notes, giving short term suspensions to be people. But it > survived. Nice people get on well ... R