> The main problem is that there is TOO MUCH policing going on, of the wrong 
> kind. 

The basic principle of this list is that the ones who are doing the work 
  get the power to do their work. Just like Olin sets the rules when he 
wants to give something away. Just like Stallman decides which license 
applies to the code he wrote (and gazillions of other programmers agree 
with him, and another gazillion don't and choose another license). I 
don't always like the admin's decisions, but I sure like that principle 
(maybe to a large extent because I don't have to do any work and the 
results are not bad).

But if you do disagree violently with the admins there are basicaly two 
votes you can cast:

You can vote with your feet. Leave the list, maybe start another one, or 
join a long-time-ago list-leaver that set up the yahoo piclist. It has 
only a fraction of the activity compared to the piclist, so it will be 
easy to police. Don't underestimate the power of voting with your feet, 
it was how Communism (or wathever it was that went by that name) was 
finally brought to its knees.

The other alternative is to vote with your time. Join the admins, do the 
dirty work, and also get a shot at the policing work. It seems to me 
that setting the rules is the easy part. Applying them in practical 
situations, that's the real work.

Or you can be like me, occasionally annoyed with what is going on, but 
not sufficiently (by a large margin) to vote in either way. And grateful 
for a list that can give the answer to a difficult question, should one 
arise.

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