<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Dear chairs of the address policy working group,</div><div><br></div><div>While I applaud your willingness to provide a platform to any and all policy proposal regardless of its merit, I must now strongly encourage you to start reconsidering this approach or to start actively moderating discussions on this mailing list. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm appalled by the level of discussion, the ad hom attacks, fallacious argumentation (see <a href="http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html">http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html</a> for an exhaustive list), a lack of constructive attitude from both the proposers and respondents and the almost absent attempts to keep discussions focused. </div><div><br></div><div>Given that this email list is the foundation of our fabled community-driven bottom-up policy process - and frankly, one of our few arguments to keep top-down decision makers out of numbers policy, I expect some standards to be maintained, and in my opinion they have been slipping, badly.</div><div><br></div><div>Hoping for short term improvement,</div><div><br></div><div>Remco</div><div>(no hats)</div><div><br></div><div>(and no Aleksi, I'm sure you had no ill intentions in your email, it was just the final straw for me)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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