Dear all,

First, I must apologise for getting wound up enough to loose my cool. My bad.

We, as a community here at ZG have to consider how we handle Johnny in particular. If anyone reviewed the thread referenced by Simon (Tenson) it should be clear how Johnny behaves, even if you never exchanged e-mails with him.

His principle is simple and time-honoured since Ghandi (who however unlike Johnny had a point), namely to provoke "the powers that be" (in our case the ZG community at large) untill they react.

Ignoring () does not work as he will simply push and pull untill he gets a reaction and in a large enough community there will be invariably someone who reacts.

As I see it, we have two options:

1) As community seek to marginalise Johnny as much as possible and put up with the remaining nuisance in the name of freedom (people like Johnny are the price of freedom)

2) Petition the Moderators to exclude Johnny from the community (which IMHO sets a dangerous precept but is defensible as ZG is "our sandbox" and not an area of unrestricted free speech)

I'd welcome constructive comments on this....

Ciao T