To be honest much of the lack of courtesy in this group was self inflicted.

To protect the community here some often would chase away prospective
trolls. People that might have had an internet site that sold wine etc.

I do think Ian and a couple others led these attacks on some of the
"prospective trolls" instead of ignoring them.

The late Joe Rosenberg was at my home a few weeks before his death and
indicated his frustration with alt.food.wine as well. He claimed that some
of the "regular contributors" lost their light heartedness and became very
mean spirited. He named a few very specifically. I actually tended to
agree on that.

Some of us were around in the most early days of alt.food.wine. In my
opinion it had became the "king of the hill" mentality for some. They took
the authorship far to serious and forgot this was about the sharing of wine
experiences and tasting of wine as such.

In closing I beleive Joe mentioned he had communications from Bill Loftkin
on same matter. Bill can chime in if he wishes and if he is still here. He
was here in the earlier days as well. Is Marcel still out there?






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