List Rules

I wonder. Are there any generally-accepted rules for conversation on this
List? i.e. in terms of the manner in which people address each other and
so forth? I would like to know the ground rules.

I assume that the basic notion is that people should be very polite; and
while they may vigorously attack each others ideas, concepts etc. etc. our
collective agreement is that the attacks should not be ad hominum.

Am I wrong in this assumption?

David Sucher
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