Erik Reuter wrote:
> 
> 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)

Its not a matter of liking or not liking Dan's posts - its a matter of
chiming in with a thought or comment and having someone send back a 15kb
email detailing why I'm an idiot that I have a problem with.

-j-

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