2009/9/13 Henning Schlottmann h.schlottmann@gmx.net:
This whole issue is one of information processing. Everyone has to learn how to deal with information in large amounts and on different media. But there have been a few generations of experience we can plug in, there are best practices and web boards are not among them.
It's not just information processing. Everywhere conversations take place, that place has a tone.
My feeling is, having robust, challenging conversations is important. But does that require the present tone of f-l? From what I've seen on other mailing lists -- Not at all. So why tolerate it, when it causes people to disengage, and discourages them from engaging at all?
Brianna