Thank you Nancy - truly - for the clarifications. Please see below.
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>>It wasn't viewed at all as a "personal attack" but it was viewed as a useless comment to a serious subject. I tried to respond in kind and you indicate that I succeeded.
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>I really truly meant my opinion. Let me say it more bluntly so that you can that I am serious, even if you do not care for it.
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>1) The UT already has too many rules.

Well I find some of the rule here onerous too. I consider that I have three choices on that issue:
a) quit UT altogether;
b) make noise in hopes of getting them changed;
c) put up with them, as "free speech" doesn't apply in private places.

I elected to practise #3, using my #2s on things like improving life or improving VFP or improving other things that bother me more.

That said, and as "rules" go, did you really find anything alarming with the ones that I tried to propose?

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>2) The only venue for posting wishes to MS should not be a forum run by a private individual who can refuse access to anyone he choses. Indeed, though it's hard to imagine, there are Fox users who do not frequent the UT, nor should they be required to. Again, IMHO.

I sure was surprised when MS announced that FoxWish@microsoft.com was being discontinued and that UT would become the official place for all future VFP wishes to be expressed. BUT, being a member of UT and always having had a very deep hankering to be able to 'see' what wishes were out there, I also welcomed it because I was going to get what I had always wanted!
I'm not going to try to defend MS' decision on the matter, but I will say that you picked the wrong place (this thread) and the wrong way (your original reply) to make your point on the matter.

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>These are my opinions. They are odds with the prevailing winds, I admit, but that doesn't scare me.

Fine, but you rendered my thread, which was a SERIOUS issue in my eyes, useless. The only person to have offered a serious reply to the issue is one of the few people here who consistently doesn't hesitate to chart his own course. EdR offered something too, but only when someone else pressed him and only after he had had his "fun" too.
You don't like to hear it, but your status as a MVP has a large impact on countless others who come here and read what you (and the other MVPs) write here (and elsewhere). I couldn't 'decode' your words but I sure could tell that you thought that the whole issue was a crock of crap!

I guess that does it.