On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 03:10:04PM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote: > Now the wording you mention below is offensive. Acknowledgments are not > for support and shouldn't be used that way. I very strongly agree with this. Moreover, I can think of at least one historical case where someone listed in the Acknowledgements insisted that his name be removed, even though he'd contributed a great deal to the development of some document with which he ended up disagreeing. I thought that was unfortunate, but the social norm was apparently not strong enough to counteract it. We should encourage acknowledgements of fierce critics. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx