>>>BTW, I did unselect the Chatter forum. I saw your message only because it is in my Replies list.
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>>>The assumption being that you've only run into issues in the Chatter forum.
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>>>Your behavior has crept into the other forums as well. If you think this is all a matter of which forum you're on, your thought process is really flawed.
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>>Maybe so. I truly do not remember getting into anything in other forums.
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>>I just replied to a private message you sent me over a week ago, BTW. I had not noticed it.
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>>OK, I am a believer in democracy. Let's put it up to a vote and I will respect that vote. Please email me, with a CC to Kevin if you like, saying you hope I:
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>>1. Stay out of Chatter for at least three months but visit the tech forums.
>>2. Just go away. That would be giving up on me but maybe I need more people to give up on me.
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>>Please send votes to my private email, mbeane@inbox.com. This will be an honest election. (Oddly enough, it's election day in Chicago, and Rahm Emanuel will surely be the next mare).
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>BTW, that's about as honest an election as Putin and Medvedev,deciding between them who would run for office in March 2012.
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>I still will not respond to your posts as a general rule. I am only going to point out that you are once again attempting to justify your actions and manipulate the audience at the same time. You decided what the options were and only provided two options and decided on your own that if anyone chooses #2 that is "giving up on you." Silly. Do you take everyone here for a fool?
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>Add a #3:
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>3) Stay away form the UT completely for 3 months and visit other technical .net forums instead. Choosing this option will not enable his bad habits, support Mike in his attempt to get and stay sober, and break his patterns and not fall into his attempt at manipulation into choosing an unhealthy option.

Thank you for the degree of concern. Still a little annoyed at you for your recent (not so recent) chilliness to me but I am a forgiving person. Maybe that was what surprised me about the reaction when I said the other day that I was leaving. (And in fact I am departing, even though it may not be apparent). I assume others think and react as I do and that is not the case. When someone is my friend, I forgive a million things.

Anyway, best wishes to you and everyone else. You saved my life once and I will never forget that. Thank you again.

It's hard to let go of the UT but I know it's for the best. I am focusing on .NET, especially the EF and WPF.

Be well.