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.
