AGK wrote:
I would echo my suggestion (with the exception of "bickering" ;-)) that a proactive approach is needed to break what seems to be the intractability of this disagreement. Assessing whether this proposal is successful (i.e., whether it becomes a useful tool) would be most effectively undertaken by actually implementing it and setting it on a trial run.
I do find your approach to be a paradox, if not necessarily worthy of Wilde. "We are all entangled in threaded discussion, but some of us are thinking of setting up _a new mailing list_."
Charles