Michael, I appreciate your efforts to keep these discussion on a productive track. It can be tricky to balance quality with relevance to a large audience. As you might guess, I see enormous value in consistent application of what might appear to be the most boring NLP pattern ever created: the well-formed outcome. As someone with a lot of experience in conflict resolution, I find the unflashy outcome procedure one of (if not the) most powerful tool that I know. In your original message, you define three criteria for determining "relevance." In my continued mission to explore strange new discussion groups, I would propose the following challenge to members of these discussions: Define a sensory-based evidence criteria for a "quality post" to this forum. - Ulic