In my humble opinion, the Etiquette Guidelines are not intended to be a bludgeon.
In general, if you are a Party to the discussion, I think that you should probably refrain from quoting the Etiquette Guidelines in response to other parties in a discussion. There are more than enough Third Parties on this List who could interject to calm down a heated discussion by reference to the Etiquette Guidelines, rather than letting participatns wield them against each other. Moreover, in general, I think that one generally has the best luck in correcting someone's actions by pulling them aside *privately* and speaking with them, rather than announcing your criticism of that person to the whole list. In today's discussion, I think there is enough lack of eitquette to be spread among several parties. While its unavoidable that the context of this message will probably be interpreted as being a criticism of only one person, suffice to say that I have criticized more than one person. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
