Without getting into the discussion of whether an email every 5 days is a DOS I would certainly like to state for the record that without question the pettiness has taken far more thought than the productivity, and so if Dean's posts are a DOS then the posts trying to protect us from them have been an atom bomb.
That's the reason the process model delegates handling such problems to specific individuals, rather than having all of us, together, participate in the review and assessment. The public part is supposed to require only a basic, brief summary by those to whom the responsibility is delegated, to ensure accountability.
Instead what has been happens is that we are constantly getting one or another list participant challenging the process and demanding full discussion of all the details.
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