First of all, I would like to apologise for not maintaining normal Listkeeping (TM) services over the last month or so. I know it has been a bad month for heresy, but I had my reasons for staying away. Some of you may have noticed 3 controversial new entries to The List (TM) and may be wondering why this is. In common with many other leading Pavers (TM) I have become increasingly pissed off with the decline in the quality of apte over the last few months. It was becoming dominated by endless pointless circular flaming with little relevance to Paving (TM). In spite of several warnings and complaints by leading Pavers (TM) the main culprits continued to offend. In the end, a group of Leading Pavers (TM) were forced to leave the group altogether, and set up a Paving List in Exile in a secret location to discuss what could be done to reclaim alt.pave.the.earth from the grip of the Pointless Time Wasters. This is what we have decided to do. I may add that we had other candidates for Listing (TM), some of whom came this close (holds up fingers indicating a tiny amount) to being Listed (TM) but whom we have decided to give other punishments instead, to be announced later. Their future behaviour will be monitored. Alt.Pave.The.Earth will now go back to being the best newsgroup on the Internet. Thank you Martin Co-Listkeeper (TM)