On Sunday 08 April 2012, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Some of the behavior here is embarrassing. Yelling about not > following procedures that nobody else even follows as stated, > threatening, whining, crudity or at least making fun of objections > to crudity, extreme defensiveness, etc. do not reflect well on us > or our ability to do anything together. Even without staking out > extreme positions, attempts to communicate concerns in the > simplest manner can elicit very strong emotional reactions which > feed the frenzy. Some less active participants must see it as a > poor statement on the human condition that there can be such > fireworks about such a simple little project. > > We need to try harder to avoid the extreme offensive and defensive > positions and acknowledge that e-mail is a limited tool in the best > of circumstances, and that some of us are enigmas to each other > even in the best of circumstances.
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