Quoting Bill Layer <blayer at qwest.net>:
> 
> Say, didn't this list used to be more geeking and less asskicking? =/
> 

I think it's some sort of law governing the natural evolution of mailing lists, 
akin to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. The amount of asskicking on a mailing 
list can only increase or at best stay they same, but it can never decrease. 
There is an obvious corollary for geeking, though inverse.