I have changed my mind. I will not be taking part in these mailing lists any further for the time being. My thinking about the issue I have raised has evolved and I have more developed ideas to offer, but for the case to be made properly with any chance of success, the first thing that should happen is for this present mode of communication to be upgraded with something more modern and useable. An interface where posting does not have a latency of several hours, where theads may be managed and moved between lists if needed, or deleted if needed, where code snippets may be represented properly. If the Steering Council is genuine in their call for greater inclusiveness, and in particular in better serving the needs of the "novice, non-technical" users, they need to ensure the communication is unhindered. Compared to other possible solutions that exist nowadays, these mailing lists are stone-age. I'll keep an eye on developments and will return with a proposal for an easy-to-use Tool superset of the present object/class/instance paradigm, targeting the aforementioned segment of users. For now, I wish you all the very best in your work taking Python forward.