[boc-l] ADMIN: Annoyance or interested?

[Ben Cohen]

Folks,

Mr. Mumford is, once again, up to his old tricks of a seemingly endless
stream-of-consciousness set of rants. As I remarked to a friend (and the owner
of the host servers), I'm not quite sure if it happens because he's started up
on drugs or he's stopped taking them.

In any event, I would like some input from the list community as a whole - are
you comfortable with / welcoming of his on-going rants or shall I, once again,
place him on moderated status (with, honestly, the expected result of my
probably not letting anything from him through).

Please note: 1) this is going to the list as a whole, so he's seeing this as
well; 2) feel free to respond either privately or publicly; 3) this truly is
an honest request for input.

There is, basically, nothing else that happens on this list, so I feel like,
on the one hand, letting him rant on isn't necessarily "bad". On the other
hand, I'm pretty sure that this wasn't what most of you were looking for.

And then, finally, on the gripping hand (look up "The Mote in God's Eye", by
Larry Niven, for explanation), there's even the question of whether the BOC-L
list should continue as a list at all. It certainly seems that, with nothing
to discuss ... it might even be time to allow it to peacefully pass into the
night.

Please - consider the discussion now open.

YnsHLM,
Ben