Tore,

>using a twit filter is like putting a concrete wall in front of someone who is shouting, you end up listening to the echo. I rather prefer that people respect that other people have other meanings and preferences.

Absolutely, I agree ... I personally have never used the twit filter (and only mentioned it because it's one of the options available for dealing with this stuff), preferring instead to just ignore the people I don't care for. Which was the other point I made in my post.

~~Bonnie



>Bonnie,
>
>using a twit filter is like putting a concrete wall in front of someone who is shouting, you end up listening to the echo. I rather prefer that people respect that other people have other meanings and preferences.
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>I like to hear other people's opinions, but I don't like getting other people's opinions and conclusions thrown at me. I want to hear facts, and want to have the freedom to draw my own conclusions, based on my own needs in my own situation, and I want other people to respect my conclusions. I don't like to be called names because I have other needs, or if I see things differently. I don't want to be talked down to by an ex-guru with less than half my experience in computers. I started to use computers in 1959 (!!), and I have seen too many versions of 'the future of programming'. The future is not yet here, I want to use what is best for MY needs NOW, and that is incidentally VFP. Tomorrow, who knows? I am open for suggestions and ideas. But I have never asked for all the bull.. I have got thrown in my face, litterally, by your mate.
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>>>If you don't want to hear him, you more or less have to, because he is everywhere, like a plague. And his arrogance is only topped by a few politicians I know of, and they at least have a reason, like it or not.
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>>Sorry, Tore ... that's just plain ridiculous. You have PUTM, you could have used the Twit Filter if you wanted to. And even if you didn't Twit Filter him out, you still didn't have to read his words. No one was forcing you to.
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>>~~Bonnie
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>>>Hi Rod,
>>>
>>>I accept your standpoint, but in this case I don't agree with you.
>>>
>>>The way JVP has taken over thread after thread in his crusade to talk down on VFP and all us programmers who has not yet converted to the new 'religion' of .NET for whatever reason, is faaaaaar from acceptable. He obviously has his opinion, and he is of course in his right to mean whatever he wants. But here on UT he has been worse than any religious fanatic I have ever met, he does not care whether anyone wants to hear his words or not. If you don't want to hear him, you more or less have to, because he is everywhere, like a plague. And his arrogance is only topped by a few politicians I know of, and they at least have a reason, like it or not.
>>>
>>>The way he talks down on people, I myself included some months ago, is not acceptable anywhere where normal rules of politeness and respect are valid. He may mean whatever he wants about himself, but his way of throwing his high ego on other people, itself is good enough reason for being banned. He received warnings, but he did not listen. Trying to talk sense to him is like peeing against the wind.
>>>
>>>We have a saying in Norway, I think it is more or less international: If you ask for a fight, you must expect a beating. I really think he asked for it.
>>>
>>>Sorry Rod, no sympathy from me.
>>>
>>>One final note: I hope this thread does not grow out of proportions, like other threads with or about JVP. I myself will not give any more comments on this matter, the case is closed as far as I am concerned.