I do not spend enough time following this subject to memorize all the acronyms.
Could posters to this list please make your emails comprehensible to someone like myself by spelling out the words comprising the acronym when it is first used in each and every email to the list? Otherwise, I am contemplating unsubscribing from this list since most of its emails look like gobbletygook letters not representing words to me. Also, in response to those using their kill filters to avoid hearing points of view not compatible with their own and who are making general non-specific personal attacks against other members of this list without constructively providing the specific details of their complaints -- your actions reveal to people on this list more about yourself -- what you are projecting onto others that are, in truth, your own characteristics -- than they do about the people you criticize. I have lived long enough to observe that when people lacking in intellectual integrity (lacking willingness to admit mistakes and openmindedly reconsider their own positions) lack a credible argument to support their positions, they often make personal attacks against those who factually rebut their positions. Why not agree that we all make intellectual mistakes by adopting incorrect or logically flawed positions at times (ideally temporarily) and be open-minded and intellectually honest enough to continually question our own point of view? If we all try our best to act in a way we can be proud of afterwards, no matter what anyone else does or says, there is no reason to make vague, unsubstantiated personal attacks in order to justify our own behavior or position. I try to follow the maxim: "To be terrific, be specific" when I make a criticism, so that it is constructive. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info