Brian Riley wrote: > On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:38 PM, Mike Singer wrote: > >> It is, that's why we need James to make sure we don't stray from the >> permitted path when we are in [EE, PIC] world. >> >> [OT] world of PICList is declared as politics free too for the flame >> safety reasons, I believe. We can see some political discussions from >> time to time here; and they always happened to flow smoothly without >> flame wars. >> I wouldn't say I'm happy with wasting time on politics; I'm just very >> much surprised we can talk it without flame. Still, can't get it, how >> James manages to maintain the intercontinental list this way. Thanks, >> James. > > here here! yes, James you must take a bow (as should all of you), > this thread has gone one for dozens of rounds with wildy differing > ideas and not once has it gotten rancorous ... I am impressed FWIW. > hey, maybe we engineers should run the world! I think it's "hear, hear!" :-) I agree that James (and other admins) are doing an excellent job of policing the PicList, but I think that the flame-free nature of this list has also a lot to do with the kind of people that it's made up of. Which, of course, is also partially admins' fault -- bad apples get banned. ;-) Vitaliy -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist