As a writer, everything you say can and will be put under the microscope by someone out here. Regarding the UT forum: It is pretty neat. I'm sure someone has told you that the force behind the UT is VFP (and, of course, some pretty cool ideas and programming from the people (person?) at Transformation).

Thanks for the response. Hopefully one of the letters will be published...

Take care,

Joe


>Joe,
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>I appreciate you--and everyone else on the UT forum--making sure I stay on track. In nine years of writing Home Office, this has been one of the more pleasant experiences.
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>Ordinarily, when I make a mistake--or just say something that offends someone (or something...)--I pay dearly. I get flamed, deluged by PR people berating me for not writing about **their** product, or stomped by the denizens of one Microsoft newsgroup or another. I once received thirty e-mails from people in the midwest because I said..."the system was probably built by a guy in a garage somewhere in the midwest." I also received one message from a midwest *gal* who was ticked that I said the guy in the garage was a guy.
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>So it's pretty clear I could have done a better job with SET CENTURY ON, and probably taken some time to talk about the latest editions of Fox. If I get more than 100 e-mails on a column, I recommend that something goes into Letters to the Editor. As a writer, that, unfortunately, is the best I can do.
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>In the meantime, the best thing to come out of this dialoge, at least for me, is discovering the UT forum. Pretty neat stuff...and perhaps the focus of a future Home office column.
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>Steve Bass
>PC World