Miss Nancy, my post to the writers' list in question was quite polite, did not flame, did not contain any expletives, was not abusive, etc., etc.

I agree with Xenophonz that it was unusually petty of the admin to ban me, but people are sometimes petty as we all know, and I have never before or since been banned from any such list, or otherwise. But I do think I might have said the other person was mistaken, and I guess he thought that was just too harsh a tone ...

One of the members on the list emailed me later and said that she'd discovered early on that virtually everyone on the list was hypersensitive to any critique of their work. She said they were the "teddy bear and chocolate candy" crowd, whatever that meant.

Anyway, aside from what one chooses to believe about how I may or may not have expressed my opinion, the main point I was making was that the admin makes the decision and it doesn't much matter whether it is wrong or right, fair or unfair, or whether you like it or not, so long as the admin is determined to stick by the decision -- as she was in this case.