Ad hominem attacks (was Possible Change to the Main List Settings)

[Amy Z]

Amanda wrote:

> She didn't say "All lawyers are ambulance-chasing squid," she 
> said "there's a lot of lawyers and some are out looking for a 
fight." 

Tom wrote:

> I may be wrong, but I'm thinking that Talisman might have been 
> referring to a post from a few weeks ago that involved a soapbox 
and 
> general grumpiness which was, er, quite ostensibly of an ad hominem 
> nature and is still present on the list.

Confused...was there an anti-lawyer post a few weeks ago?  Because I 
missed it if so (v possible--I've missed plenty of posts here).  By 
my reading Talisman's post was quite specifically referring to the 
quoted post of Dicentra's, in which (according to Talisman's reading, 
not according to Amanda's nor apparently to yours) she slammed 
lawyers as a group.  If there's a post on here that you believe does 
that, there's no need to be cagey--the point of this list is to give 
opinions on list policies and the enforcement thereof, right?  So 
just give the message number so those of us to whom the reference is 
not obvious can see what you mean.

Thanks,
Amy Z