I'm enjoying the running gun battle for now, but if more people join the list it might get to be too much! It might be easier to follow if we agreed on a format for threading of discussions... sometimes responses are interspersed into the body of the original message, sometimes not.... I have no preference other than consistency! Cheers Dawn ----Original Message Follows---- From: mark bumstead <2mab8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: ql06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: ql06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ql06] Re: PUBLIC: Civil liberties Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:05:07 -0400 I pose the following question: What is the general consensus with respect to this listserv? Is it a forum to pass news items, or one which stimulates debate on those items, and the topic in general? As you may have noticed, Ken, Sheldon, and I have been engaged in a "running gun battle" of late. Is this the type of thing we want to happen, or do we just want to read news items? If it is for news only, then I will cease posting/defending my views in this venue. Mark _________________________________________________________________