<<That's the advantage of a club over USENET; you can delete people you don't like.>> Unless we are willing to restrict access to this club in some manner (I'm fairly sure it can be done, although I don't recall if it can be done after a club is formed), I don't see how deleting annoying members will solve the problem; they can just come back under a different name. [Moreover, I don't know if there is a fair way to verify identities without allowing either denying access to people who deserve it, or allowing access to people whose primary intent is trolling.] Also, I don't normally advocate public censorship (i.e., denying people the right to express their views in public). Because of the way this group is set up, though, I would only consider 'censorship' of a post to be unfair if the post (a) could not be construed as having offensive or malicious intent, and (b) contained some kernel of information that could be considered relevant to QB. [An example of the latter, IMO, would be a message advertising, say, a URL for 'warez'.] IIRC, David has the right to appoint as many group administrators as he likes. If people really want to 'moderate' this group--I can see the benefits thereof, as well as reasons not to--it would not be difficult to appoint a group of moderators, who together could remove inappropriate posts, instead of leaving it up to one person. --STI
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