Oliver Pereira wrote:
(1.) Could we please not use this mailing list for personal attacks on people, whether they are here to defend themselves or not. I know that this list is not subject to the NPOV rule, but calling people "twits" and so on is simply not constructive.
I agree completely, and urge others to practice similar restraint.
(2.) Could we please not make assumptions about people that are based on little or no evidence. Such disregard for the need for evidence casts serious doubt on one's standards of scholarship, and hence on the reliability of any information one might contribute to an encyclopaedia.
Yes!
--Jimbo
p.s. You should throw in some British slang. Better yet, some American slang that Americans *think* is British, whether it is or not. Lots of references to tea, old chap. :-)