[Gasification] removal from list

[Mark Ludlow]

Dear Tom,

It's a great list and coupled with the archives and inspiration provided by
those contributors for whom gasification is an obsession or profession,
there's a lot for everyone, at all levels.

Gasification seems both science and art so some may be disappointed that
there's not a tidy answer for every general question, but it's a little like
being immersed in a foreign country whose language you don't speak; after a
while you start to catch on to what is happening. Given enough time, you
become fluent.

Best regards,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Tom Miles
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:17 AM
To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'
Subject: Re: [Gasification] removal from list

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