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. :-)