We have had similar experiences on a Philadelphia Folk Festival Volunteers list, mostly when the elections for PFS Board of Directors are being waged. Our list hostess (She calls herself our list mother and she is correct on so many levels) has had to step into some frays and suspend posting privilages to one or two miscreants. Her justice is swift and sure so, when I want to engage another poster in philisophical combat, I have taken to contacting him/her, directly, off list. This stratogy allows me and my worthy opponent to shout at will and, then, almost invariably, to resolve our differences. Oh, we have our pot stirrers, too, but that's why God made delete keys.

                Mike Miller