> >This also isn't an appropriate place to discuss a knee injury that I had
> >some ten years ago, or whether my nose itches, or how the TRS-80 did
> >graphics.  A few short comments aren't a problem, but if people started
> >seeing long tirades about my nose, that would not be appropriate to the
> >list.  It doesn't matter whether you are for or against my nose (or its
> >itching).  If I disregarded that, I would expect to be directed to look up
> >an alt. newsgroup for itchy noses.
>
> Except that you didn't object to Mr. St.Hilaire's _topic_ (or to any of
> the other posters on that subject.  You objected to his _position_.  And
> I don't think that's a good idea.

Careful about that glass house you're living in, there.


> But that's fine.  Continuing to carry on this way is even sillier than
> the original thread had become...

Indeed.  But continuing to tell me what I mean and believe, and asking me
to explain myself, is at odds with your closing sentiment.


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu