25MAY99 Dear co-listers. Two different 'select' groups of co-listers have been discussing the merits and inconveniences of moderation. The ecol-econ list has two moderators, Steve and Harald.
Moderation leads to censorship.
Some were so bad that I once thought they were CIA plants to embarrass the green movement. Moderators would not be allowed to approve their own messages, of course. We seem to have a fairly stable number of subscribers, about 850, and we have hundreds of visitors to the web site. I am doing so openly, if someone wants to moderate me, they can do so. If the discussion degenerates into opinions and name calling, it is a loss.