On Jan 22, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:

>> It excludes people who don’t participate in the list because of issues 
>> they’ve had there in the past.
> 
> When and whom? This is the time for those that had issues to speak up either 
> directly or through someone else. In doing so though I would expect 
> verifiable information.

So here we have a chicken-and-egg issue. If there is no CoC (or an insufficient 
one), then people who have been hurt in the past don’t want to participate. You 
need the security of a CoC before it’s safe to come back. It is not up to them 
to prove themselves to you, to verify that they have suffered just for some 
sort of confirmation for you.

The way to involve a broader audience is to solicit feedback from outside the 
immediate confines of a single mail list. Or even the community itself. People 
have left the community because of issues; how do you get their help fixing the 
things over which they left?

BTW, I am one of those “through someone else” people of which you speak.

Best,

David

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