As another damnfool listowner (I'll add a syllable to Doug's
redundancy), I have a question raised by Mary's comment:

> Since my only pay is the satisfaction of seeing it work well, there
> is a lot of emotion tied up in it. There wouldn't be the emotional
> involvement in a list that I was running for someone else.
> But...when I think of having to read all those messages to check
> for flames, I don't want to do it. I wouldn't mind being technical
> help for new list owners though.

How many people "read all those messages to check for flames"?  My
view is that once I've intervened once I'd have to intervene all the
time, because I'd have assumed responsibility for everything that
gets posted, and I'd have a moderated list whatever I preferred.  I
might intervene, I guess, in the same way any subscriber might, by
posting a remonstrance to the list . . . but anything beyond that, I
expect, would convert the list into one for which I'd have
responsibility for anything posted.  Not what I signed on for, and I
imagine the list would be orphaned pretty quickly . . .

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