There has been a valuable discussion over the last several months regarding a hard fork with respect to block size.  However the sheer volume of email and proportion of discussion that is more philosophical than technical has rendered this list almost unusable for its primary purpose of technical discussion related to Bitcoin development.  Many of us share the blame for letting the discourse run off topic to such a degree, and we hope that an appeal for individual self restraint will allow this list to return to a higher signal-to-noise ratio.

-Please consider the degree to which any email you send is related to technical development before sending it.

-Please consider how many emails you are sending to this list regarding the same topic.

This list is not appropriate for an endless back and forth debate on the philosophical underpinnings of Bitcoin.  Although such a debate may be worthwhile it should be taken to another forum for discussion.  Every email you send is received by hundreds of developers who value their time as much as you value yours.  If your intended audience isn't really the majority of them, perhaps private communication would be more appropriate.