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From: Marcia Karp <[log in to unmask]> > It is easy to ignore messages -- the silence that meets most with any literary > content demonstrates this. Argument, rebuttal, ignoring are fair. Name-calling and > organized exclusion are as distasteful as was the long ago call for a shunning. The difference between 'ignoring' and 'shunning' on a discussion list isn't all that clear to me. Why is one fair and the other distasteful? I should think they amount to the same thing. On a related theme: When I last resubscribed after a period of absence this summer, I noted that the instructions no longer include anything about etiquette. Or course, such recommendations did not always prevent mud-slinging in the past. But in the last resort they could always be produced to remind everyone of the basic standards of discussion on a list like this one. Their absence means that the 'delete' key really is the only option available in some cases. There's nothing distasteful about using it. Yours, Raphaël [log in to unmask]