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----- Original Message ----- ... ----- Reply: ----- I don't know where you get the idea that I (and Josh) are *offended* by anything; the only person who seems to be offended is Dave... Being called a moron and a jerk and being told that I suck because I don't see anything necessarily wrong with scrapping a system for parts could certainly be considered rude and offensive, but that really just reflects on the name-callers' character and maturity. There's no question that pretty well everyone on this list has things to contribute, including and sometimes especially Dave and the above-mentioned high posters; what I (and, I think, Josh) are suggesting is that the noise level gets pretty high sometimes and that perhaps the relatively few people creating most of the noise might take a moment to think whether that opinion, argument, whatever, is really worth the bandwidth and time to post, not to mention the replies that it will provoke. But predictably, it's just like asking the neighbours to please keep the noise down a bit; the usual reply is a hostile "go f$%k yourself" and the noise gets cranked up even more. I still think that it's a shame when the noise drives valuable people to other, friendlier, lists with higher S/N ratios; they don't seem to be missed by anyone else here and I'm on those lists as well, so no problem I guess. IMO, other than for HP and DEC issues CCtalk is becoming less and less relevant to many members of the community, but perhaps that's as it should be... So, no, I'm not offended; I'm also subscribed to CCtech so I can choose to just read the 'edited' version, or even unsubscribe altogether if I do get too annoyed or even "offended." Back to our regular programming... m