[Gasification] removal from list

Fri Sep 14 05:17:16 EDT 2007

All,

Since I am travelling I haven't followed this discussion. It is a curious
thread. It makes it sounds like a number of people have left the list. Not
so. We have 860 members. There has been a turnover of 40-50 per year for the
last 11 years. Membership has usually run about 850-900.

You will find a great deal of information in the archives and often you will
find answers to questions on the list but the listservs have always been
proactive: you have to ask the question to get the answer you're looking
for.

People have left the list for as many different reasons as they have joined.
Some want to be entertained and leave when the discussion slows. Others
leave when traffic is high. At the same time people join with equally
diverse expectations.

We host these lists as a service to the community. As for censorship list
members usually keep each other in balance. I'm a tolerant person. In more
than 12 years I have only had to remove two people among thousands of
subscribers on five lists. They had to be pretty rude to the list
administrators, moderators and/or members. And they had to work very hard to
lose their right to participate on the lists. Peter was one of them.

Tom Miles

-----Original Message-----
From: gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Ken Basterfield
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:12 PM
To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'
Subject: Re: [Gasification] removal from list

I hadn't noticed this list being particularly censorious.
Has Peter been kicked off or is he is one of his busy, quiet periods?
ken

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-----Original Message-----
From: gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of gfwhell at aol.com
Sent: 13 September 2007 01:27
To: gasification at listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Gasification] removal from list

 Toby.
My sentiments entirely, I have not seen any new ideas on here, ever since
Peter Singfield was kicked off, because he challenged the Ego of someone or
other. There is an old proverb about sticks and stones, the pen is mightier
than the sword and all that. let debate rage and , as long as the title of
the discussion is headed on? each contribution, what does it matter? are we
frightened of a virtual punch in the ear when we err? I might not care to
read about tar cleansing or peanut husk husbandry. so I wont bother to open
it. I am interested in high voltage field effect on smoke, plasma, high
pressure effects on gasses in the presence of catalysts and general thermo
dynamics etc.the great global warming swindle, as if we make an iota of
difference, to the warming of our planet certainly don't' like dictatorships
where action is taken without approval from the members of a group. count me
in or out as the case may be.

GF

-----Original Message-----
From: Toby Seiler <seilertechco at yahoo.com>
To: gasification at listserv.repp.org
Sent: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:05 pm
Subject: [Gasification] removal from list

Mr. Bowen, 

  I'm interested in who is part of the list and why they leave it.  The 
controlled nature of exploratory discussion has caused many to leave that
could 
contribute immensely to the discussions.  In addition to giving notice that
they 
want to be removed from the list, I would like to see a paragraph why they
want 
removed, instead of stealthly slipping away by your suggested method.

  Toby Seiler, Seiler Technical Co.

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