Kampervan: by post number 40 on the Andy K thread, do you mean your comment about the difficulty of people understanding intended tone on e-mail?
That's absolutely true & apposite.

But still-- I think that those times in all sorts of threads where people put adjectives in front of others' names or talk about them behind their back on the list don't fall into that category at all. The adjectives are hardly terms of endearment, so collective electronic- media-tone-deafness isn't an alibi....

(In this message I don't intend to point a finger at anyone, so please, folks, don't take it as directed at you in particular, because it's not.)