<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 24, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Brett Paatsch wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Your post provides an opportunity to comment on a means for improving list quality without censorship. If someone is excessively and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">constistently rude or boring just ignore them. Warn them if you like and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">if they don't heed you, just stop talking to them.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sounds good. In practice the rude loud voices seem to drown the perhaps more soft-spoken and perhaps more thoughtful ones. I think the best list upkeep requires more active gardening and occasional pruning of a more aggressive kind than seen here.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">- samantha</FONT><BR></BODY></HTML>