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<p class="">Dear coordinator,</p>
<p class="">any key term used ad nauseam become de facto a way to prevent any real "constructive discourse" and debate within the list, and is in fine a kind of godwin point (yes it is unfortunate). </p>
<p class="">I am not setting any norm or guidelines but replying to what I can see as almost a bullying and accusation to member of IGC from another (again it is unfortunate) </p>
<p class="">I am puzzled that someone was accused to do ad hominem but you didn't intervene in that case abut you are only wearing your coordinator hat to reply to my message?I am honestly confused and not sure what to think about.</p>
<p class="">Thanks,</p>
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<p class="">Best,</p>
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<p class="">Rafik</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Rafik Dammak</div>@rafik<div>"fight for the users"</div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/16 Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
[with IGC coordinator hat on]<br>
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Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I am afraid to see your response in the borderline bullying and a real<br>
> ad-hominem in this case. unfortunately this latin locution become the<br>
> new godwin point of IGC list.<br>
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</div>Please don't attempt to turn a key term in a guideline for constructive<br>
discourse into a word which which can't be used in practice because it<br>
is would be considered a "godwin point".<br>
<br>
Without wanting to take away or diminish the recommendation that I've<br>
given on avoiding ad hominem remarks, let me quote another very good<br>
recommendation:<br>
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"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"<br>
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(This particular wording may have originated in RFC 1122 [1], where the<br>
principle is attributed to an earlier RFC edited by Jon Postel; in that<br>
earlier RFC however the principle was worded differently.)<br>
[1] <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122" target="_blank">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122</a><br>
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Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
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