On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Pete Resnick wrote: > Much as I would like what Stephen says to be true, I think Lloyd's probably > right: People give more weight to opinions coming from people with dots on > their name badges. One has to be able to see the dots for it to possibly matter. Out here at the end of the email connection, I have almost no clue who might have a dot. I give weight to folks I've observed over time to provide thoughful comments. Many have been ADs, etc. at some point. Unless a message explicitly says "I'm writing in role as an AD", it doesn't matter. The exception would be the WG chairs and ADs associated with WGs I follow. I'm well aware that any review comment I'd make would need to logically explain my position because I'm relatively unknown. Dave Morris