David:
An excellent summation. The bottom line is the "Sphere" (or any poetry site) must have new members in order to survive because it relies on "member numbers for income from advertisers" --unless this is totally philanthropic endeavor. New writers are a very fragile lot and easily squashed and I think some provision should be made to bring them along. New writers are not nearly as sophisticated as the very advanced but are still looking for tools to get better and they shouldn't be hammered at first. However I agree with you --the 'Sphere has the least of it that I have found. I was partnered for a while with a mod from another site and he used to tell me of the viscious e-mail back channel conspiring "to get certain posters". He quit and so did I. Now as far as the politcal thing is concerned, Kevin made an ad-hom attack on Bush and I responded. However, I will retire from that fray and leave him to declare victory --even though I spent five days with a reporter on the ground at OKC and know a lot more about it than the average person.
Dick
[This message has been edited by Dick Morgan (edited March 02, 2005).]
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