[EM] Request re. Acronym Use on this list

[Kathy Dopp]

I do not spend enough time following this subject to memorize all the acronyms.

Could posters to this list please make your emails comprehensible to
someone like myself by spelling out the words comprising the acronym
when it is first used in each and every email to the list?

Otherwise, I am contemplating unsubscribing from this list since most
of its emails look like gobbletygook letters not representing words to
me.

Also, in  response to those using their kill filters to avoid hearing
points of view not compatible with their own and who are making
general non-specific personal attacks against other members of this
list without constructively providing the specific details of their
complaints -- your actions reveal to people on this list more about
yourself -- what you are projecting onto others that are, in truth,
your own characteristics -- than they do about the people you
criticize.   I have lived long enough to observe that when people
lacking in intellectual integrity (lacking willingness to admit
mistakes and openmindedly reconsider their own positions) lack a
credible argument to support their positions, they often make personal
attacks against those who factually rebut their positions.  Why not
agree that we all make intellectual mistakes by adopting incorrect or
logically flawed positions at times (ideally temporarily) and be
open-minded and intellectually honest enough to continually question
our own point of view?   If we all try our best to act in a way we can
be proud of afterwards, no matter what anyone else does or says, there
is no reason to make vague, unsubstantiated personal attacks in order
to justify our own behavior or position.  I try to follow the maxim:
"To be terrific, be specific" when I make a criticism, so that it is
constructive.