Dale Thorn wrote:
2. The only possible scheme that could work long-term would be a moderated list plus a deleted (excised?) list of posts which didn't make the moderator's cut.
Dale, I love your attitude, and I enjoy many of your posts. I also love being able to laugh at you for getting sucked into the oldest trick in the book. In the ruins of Rome, you will find a Chariot Dealership which sold both Pontiac and Chevy Chariots. Once they had you on their sales lot, they would attempt to get you sucked into a mindset where your choices were limited to choosing between 'their' chariots. Our political sytem is a grand 'play' in which the Democrats and the Republicans 'contend' to see who gets to slip us the cold, hard one. The bottom line, is that what is dripping out of your butt is either a Democrat's sperm and a Republican's saliva, or vice-versa.
Having a moderated list and a full unmoderated list is certain to fail, and I'm not too sure that they don't have this in mind already.
Have I misjudged you? Could it possibly be that you can still hear the small whisper in the wind that warns you that it's all done with mirrors? "Believe nothing of what you hear, only half of what you see, and if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!" Bubba Rom Dos Toto