Hi, all

INTRODUCTION

Very gratifying to see two people here when I just posted the URL a
couple of hours ago.

My name's Barbara, I'm your friendly neighborhood moderator and
owner of this list.

All "new members" are on Moderation. This means that your first post
(and you will all be posting, wont' you?) will not show up until
after I read it and make sure it's legitimate and not some kind of
spam. After that I'll take each member off moderation, so all posts
will then s how up immediately.

When I originally set up this mailing list, it was to discuss The
Avengers without having to bother about spammers. However, inthe
subsequent hours, I've decided to expand the purview, and I hope it
will still retain your interest. I also hope that because of the
expanded purpose, we'll get a lot of members who will actually post
instead of lurk.

As all Avengers fans will know, the name Ransack comes from The
Master Minds, in which Ransack was a group where highly intelligent
people got together to discuss everything under the sun, and try to
solve problems.

Well, there are no membership tests here, anyone is welcome who
wishes to exercise their brain, and feels that education does not
stop once one gets out of school/college - but goes on always.
(Indeed, for some people, real education begins after they leave
school, as, with the state of schools today, it's hard to learn
anything there!)

Anyway, so in addition to the Avengers, what I'd like to discuss
here is such things as non-fiction books on the various sciences,
history, etc., just a clearing house for information, for
discussion, etc.

I'm currently rewriting the groups's description, and then I'll
have a post or two to make on a book I'm reading called Chesapeake
Invader, which I hope will start the group off on the right note.