Pete, On 12/06/2013 07:45, Pete Resnick wrote: > It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want > more text. I don't. I want less. Save your breath. There is no reason to > send one line of support, and it only encourages the view that we're > voting. Details below. Just to test what you are saying, let me ask the following. I will stipulate that a message that can be summarised accurately as "+1" doesn't serve much purpose. How would you react to one that says something like: "I've read the draft, and I've considered Joe Blow's objection, but I still support publication of the draft" (*not" followed by a reasoned rebuttal of Joe Blow's argument)? Brian