> flourish. One key thing that will help this happen is indeed to cut out (as > much as possible) discussion and/or members that will alienate people. > Cripes, perhaps I'm one of those, and if so then so be it. I'd hope that's > not the case, though And let's not let our biases dictate what alienates people. A couple of the responses to the event in question were pretty harsh (including jabs against religion) -- To anyone who may be religious on the list, seeing crap like that is just as likely to drive them away as someone who's non-religious being preached to. Just my two cents. :-) -Andrew