I for one like your posting style, Dan (well, I get bored by the philosophical stuff, I prefer more practical stuff, but I just skip over the stuff that bores me). My favorite of your posts are the ones where you give detailed examples and supporting evidence. You present your ideas clearly, and seem to be open to hearing other ideas. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect that if someone wants to discuss something with you, that they at least put in some effort to reply to your specific points or evidence. I do think it is unreasonable for people to try to convince you to change your style because you are somehow slighting them or hurting their feelings because they are intimidated by your high quality posts. If they feel that way, they should simply not read your posts. I would miss it if you changed your style. You can't please all of the people all of the time. (Although if it bothers you, I suppose you could include a shallow, "executive summary" at the beginning of your long posts and the mind-numb people can stop reading after the summary)
-- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
