I would thank for some advice from Seniors on the following:
 
I run FISH-ECOLOGY (over 550 scientific and academic members from 31
countries), a fisheries ecology and related topics list.
 
There have been problems with some subscribers. All of them are .COM
ones: (a) Language usage is unproper; (b) Announcement guidelines
were deliberately violated; (c) No very ethical and nothing to
contribute to scientific discussions; (d) Using e-mail list for
private purposes, again violating our guidelines.
 
It seems those subscribers got on-line just "to make the buck". A
scientist signed off in protest to such actions. The offended was
an important scientific source with lots of experience.
 
Furthermore, there are many Senior Scientists, researchers and
fisheries advisors from very important government and international
institutions.
 
Questions.
 
(1) Who, in the US, get .COM accounts other than profit enterprises ?
 
(2) Would it be unfair to discriminate all future .COM subscribers ?
 
(3) What would a Senior list owner do in such a case [to avoid
    negative interferences by unqualified subscribers on academic
    discussions].
 
Thank you.
Aldo-Pier Solari.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Aldo-Pier Solari [MSc., PhD-cand., Lunds Univ.-Sweden-]
at Fisheries Res. Group, Univ. of Las Palmas. Box 550,
35018 Las Palmas - Canary Islands (Spain).
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