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To: Susan G who wrote (11638)	8/28/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: Susan G	Respond to of 28311

A great link on banner ads and page hits - taken from one of the links in my previous posts. wilsonweb.com

To: Susan G who wrote (11638)	8/28/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 28311

Thanks for posting the message links, Susan. I've seen some of the effects of that as it boiled over onto the "Welcome" thread. I don't think I ever saw a post by the person at the center of this whole thing, so I have no opinion about the suspension itself. I guess I'll spend a bit of time on the thread to get a greater sense of what the eruption was all about. But on a broader level, this situation demonstrates the great difficulty of operating any kind of "community" service. Without of rules of conduct of some sort and without a way to enforce those rules, it's all too easy for one person or a group of people to make the service unpleasant for everyone else. It happens in city parks. It happens in bars. It happens in community centers. And it happens on every computer discussion board that has ever existed. But it seems there will always be a problem in the enforcement. That's an interesting part of the risk that a company like GNET faces when they operate a community like this one. The rules of conduct make it more pleasant and more useful most of the time, but the enforcement of the rules will occasionally make some in the community very uncomfortable.