[Web4lib] Please behave

[K.G. Schneider]

Only lack of administrative access is preventing me from personally taking
immediate action. Roy has been notified; since we're all volunteers he's
probably off doing his day job, on the assumption that people wouldn't act
like bratty children on this list, which for nearly everyone has been the
case for about a decade. Meanwhile, I would strongly suggest a list
"time-out," at least on this topic. My personal apologies for anyone
subjected to inappropriate list language. If you haven't read the messages,
I recommend you delete the whole batch.

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Karen G. Schneider