Micheal - you make some good points which I can relate to. On participation - I perhaps need to back track from the idea of widespread threathening removal etc and have a bit more tolerance. On joining however - you never know who you are dealing with so moderating first message is your only safe guard in my view of people whose aim is to disrupt. Where I am at odds on this is when you get people who set their subscription to "No email". Who wants a group full of those people. In our group we have "3-4 creaters" and about "15 joiners in" and today we need everyone of those. With a membership of 180 plus - I feel if we had a few more participators - it would place less weight on the few?currently doing the work of keeping it going.
We are a legacy basic group (so 180 members OK) and we manage easily space wise below the threshold of fees.
Thanks for your input ......
Barry??
