On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:11:49 -0800, John Smith
wrote:

The majority of your text has turned to attacking personalities

Personal advice from the anonymous. More irony than value there; and
you could as easily be Ossama Bin Forgotten wishing us Deadly
Christmas and a Satan hugging New Year muttered under your beard.

Others might teach me about manners, but they haven't weighed in, have
they? They would put the substance of their names behind their
lesson, and they would have a reputation of civil discourse in
contrast to mine. It's happened before, but you and Cecil aren't
standing in that long line.

Not only is this boring, it is plain disgusting. My gawd man, step back
for a moment or two and get a hold of yourself.

As for being bored? This has been a grind, certainly; 600+ postings
informs us all of that! [Talk about the bleeding obvious. Reggie
would have his thumb in your eye.] You getting bored, however, speaks
only to your own veiled hedonism. Your moral balance is seized with
the rust of anonymity.

Want to move away from personalities? Try participating with
technical comments or providing data. Cecil abandoned it with his
claim of being hounded with 20 questions. How many more than 20
questions litter this thread from him? How much data arrived from
those 20 questions? Did you find yourself informed during that
interchange? Did none of them raise your interest to engage your own
participation? Was there anything in their relation to the
measurement that revealed success or failure? Did you find anything
"personal" in their revelation? Did you laud or challenge that
enquiry or its analysis? Did it elicit any questions? Frankly, you
show very little interest in these topics except when the
entertainment becomes a bit too purple. It has, no doubt about it;
but you don't even have the critic's qualifications to do anything
more than phone in a vote to American Idol and hope Simon doesn't pick
up the line.

You chose to respond to the comedy, and stood silent in the exchange
of idea and information. No, I don't see any lesson offered here by
you that you don't need learning first.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC