I agree that personal attack should not happen.

As for the language usage, I believe casual language should be ok for the list, as we are not lawyers but geeks.

And, as many of us are not native speaker, mistake on grammer as well as wording should be accepted.

Just my 2 cents:)

With regards.

On 31 January 2017 at 17:34, ox <andre@ox.co.za> wrote:

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:21:37 +0000
Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet@heanet.ie> wrote:
> I shall be more clear, in that case. I have little or no problem with
> generalised swearing. It's a part of modern language and while I
> generally would not use it in professional written communications
> myself, I'm not going to attempt to censor anyone else for it.
>
> What I do not believe is acceptable is ad hominem attacks. There were
> what I believe were implied anti-Semetic comments made during the
> recent thread and that is not something that is allowed. Simple as
> that.
>
+1

and thank you so much for being direct, it needed to be said so that
there is no confusion about the problem that exists.

Andre

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Kind regards.
Lu