steven l. rubenstein wrote:
I believe that both positions I have hypothesized are extreme. I hope members of the list-serve can present alternatives, and discuss this case as a means for clarifying our ideas about policies and procedures.
Steve,
Your "First aproach: No personal attacks, period" is both extreme and correct. That in it's pure form must always be our policy. Yesterday, for example, I was guilty of saying at [[Talk:Human]], "It is clear that the editors currently present are not interested in talking first and shooting later." My personal attack required an apology.
If Adam Carr had believed in the primacy of that rule, he would have directed his frustration toward finding acceptable solutions instead of taking the easy and ineffective way out of blowing his top at Peter in Canberra (Skyring). He needed to search deeper for solutions to the Peter Problem.
Tom Haws