From: "H. Simpson" <nospam@...>
Date: 2004-08-07T17:36:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Amazing GUI toolkit with visual designer & Ruby Integration

Ben Giddings wrote:

> H. Simpson, please calm down.  Take a few deep breaths.  Think before 
> posting.  Don't use personal attacks.  Your email was inflammatory and 
> rude.  It was also proposing a pretty improbable scenario.  If someone 
> spent their life savings building an application, I would hope they 
> wouldn't use some random comments from some internet user as a 
> substitute for legal advice.
> 
> Having said that, Lothar is incorrect.
> 

Ben,

I think that the people that manage to annoy us the most are those that 
remind us of our own flaws.  Maybe Lothar reminded me of my flaws and 
judging by your post, I probably reminded you of yours.

Your post directly states or strongly suggests that: I'm not calm, I 
don't think before posting, I use personal attacks, and my post was both 
inflammatory and rude.

Before anyone suggests that you are guilty of exactly what you are 
accusing me of...let me state now in your defense that I don't agree 
with any such accusations.

I think there's a chance that you might be a calm person, you probably 
think before posting, and you might not have intended your post to be a 
personal attack.  I suspect you were probably just trying to be stern 
with me so that I can benefit from your wisdom and not cause any 
potential offense to others by making similar posts in the future.

If this is the case, isn't it amusing how our two posts written with 
very similar intent received very different replies?

As to whether your post or mine were inflammatory or rude, well, it is 
entirely up to the readers--not the writers--whether our posts cause any 
inflammations.  Hence the difference in your response to my post and my 
response to your post.

Hava a great weekend.