Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
One of my first posts to this group was essentially a re-examination
of whether backwash causes lift.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...se_frm/thread/
b85a49e900a0c791

There were numerous subsequent ad-hominem attacks by many licensed
pilots in this group, which, by definition, makes that post
inflammatory.

Under the rules you write above, would that post have been accepted or
rejected in a moderate group?

It would depend on the group charter. For example, if you had asked how to
perform finite-element-analysis of landing gear on a moderated group
chartered for discussion of piloting, it would have been rejected as off
topic with suggestions on a more appropriate group. Asking questions
relating to backwash on lift - borderline. Would have approved as "hangar
talk".

And ad-hominem's would be rejected too. That's standard operating procedure
for moderated groups - unless the moderator(s) are trying to kill the
group. Or such things are chartered as on topic!