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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (82650)	3/16/2003 12:54:43 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Even if you had asked, you might just get this answer Yes, it's remotely possible but then again, I've spent several entire weekends working on back and forth PM's with disgruntled individual posters too. Have you remotely made such a sacrifice of your personal time to the ongoing welfare of this study/discussion group? You might want to talk to my wife too while you are answering that... I expend a lot of effort here because, well, sometimes it's very hard to know the 'right thing' to do. Why do I do this? Because it is just so much darn fun being around such a bright bunch of people. But on the other hand, I sure get flat out worn and wearly from a hundred jousting matches with those who wish to make a game of second guessing me. For Pete's sake, I don't get a dime of compensation for my roughly 1,500 hours of effort, so why not flip me a crumb of regard? Now for: Bluntly put, it's my prerogative. You want the long answer? OK, you'll get it. The question that proked this snippy response was silly. If you are a participant here then I hope you can trust my judgement on what boundaries promote a smooth flowing, useful, and interesting discussion. I've seen a lot of water pass under the bridge during the last 500 days and 82,000 posts on this thread and I have a good sense of what really pisses people off. This was one of those issues -- in fact, so obviously so that I was stunned this poster would even want challenge my comment on the matter. That's the long answer -- but I figure most here already knew the long answer. Does this answer better meet your needs? --fl