Thanks for posting that...sure would be more pleasant around here if "personal attacks", ridicule and (mean-hearted) sarcasm fade away from the UT...attitudes from the heart may eventually help that to happen.

"Celebrate the doing right and the being right of your heart."
~ Rilke

J

>Note to self...
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>Commenting on JVP's questions about Integrating browse and read, and about Read Levels, I said this:
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>>>John, I saw the big picture right away. Well done spoof, though -- just the right amount of "I wonder if this is real?" :-)
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>I appreciate subtle humor, and that's what I was commenting on. However, in the context of the ongoing battle, that humor was used to ridicule Ed's mixture of older and newer programming styles. I saw THAT big picture right away also, but let my funny bone get in the way of my heart.
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>I do not support ridicule, sarcasm, or mockery of others in our ranks, no matter what the differences. Even among close friends, those things can (and have too many times with me) backfired.
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>Thanks to the UT'er who privately called me on the carpet for encouraging this kind of stealth warfare.