Digital BW, The Print

Jon,

I am responded to you on-list, because your "commentary" was done on-list.

Your post is clearly nothing more than an ad hominim attack, easily done
when you don't even use your real name, and from behind a computer screen.
It's funny you send it half a day after the discussion had been over with.
Obviously, you just wanted to "slap me around a bit" in public.

It's reasonably clear your only point is to attempt to belittle and degrade
me in public.  If you really had any consideration for the other
participants of the list, you wouldn't do that, unless you needed them as
spectators.

On-list personal "comments" as yours are clearly inappropriate, and far more
off-topic than the those you and others "complained" about.  It's juvenile
antics like yours that lowers the quality of discussion, not some allegedly
off-topic posts.

It's interesting you would only attack me, even though there were quite a
few other far more off topic posts that I had not one bit of participation
in.

Your post, as well as the others of similar ink, are entirely
hypocritical...as they are so far off-topic, which is what you are so
self-righteously whining about.  You could have just as easily, and far more
appropriately, sent personal emails to people and asked that they curtail
the discussion, or simply posted a respectful request to the list, instead
of the personal comments that were posted.

There is nothing wrong with requesting that people not continue a discussion
that YOU consider off-topic, and there are appropriate ways to do so without
making it personal, or whining, as was done.  People are more likely to
consider your "request" if you ask appropriately, than if you simply
belittle and/or degrade them.  You have to realize your request is just
that, a request, and that you are in no position to demand that someone stop
a discussion that you feel is off-topic as they may feel it is on-topic.
That absolute power is reserved for the list owners, not you.

Austin