>I don't know what one has to do with the other,
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>You said that I am short on compassion because I do not consider someone being banned from an on-line forum to be a great personal tragedy.
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>Frankly, she brought this one on herself. She was warned via e-mail about what the forum management considered to be inappropriate behavior and she refused to conform to their rules. So she was banned. By her own admission, she was also banned from tek-tips. She has had "issues" with Andy on the MSDN forum. Does anyone see a pattern here? Perhaps Naomi should do some soul searching to see what she is doing to cause this sort of reaction over and over again.


Having already stated my opinion, I am going to try to stay out of the rest of this thread. I agree with you that being booted from an online forum is not a great tragedy compared to other things such as the ones you mentioned. For the record, I was not saying you are uncompassionate in a general sense, only in this specific discussion with Naomi. Ultimately, of course, how you treat her is up to you, not me.

It's a gorgeous spring Saturday and my daughters are here for the weekend. I am going to enjoy that and tune out this tempest in a teapot.