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[Warren Ockrassa]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Dan M wrote:

> You posted to state that a significant fraction of my posts are rude  
> because
> they are long.

And you wonder why few people seem to want to engage you in  
intelligent, polite discourse?

Seriously, Dan -- arguing in good faith, avoiding strawmanning and ad  
hominem, and staying clear of pedantic browbeating are going to get  
you considerably more favorable replies than the tone I've seen from  
you in this most recent set of threads.

The sense I get (since you did originally ask) is that you *must* be  
right at all costs, damn the opposition -- and, since they're wrong  
anyway, they can be ignored. This might not be how you intend to come  
off onscreen, but that's how it reads to me at least.

If it's so bloody important that it's worth discussing, you could at  
least concede you might not be entirely correct -- and whether you are  
or not, why is it so all-fired important to be right 100 percent of  
the time on *an internet discussion maillist*?

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