I just read it before seeing your e-mail and was wondering why you
hadn't removed it.  It was anonymous, didn't really have anything to do
with the article and did seem very childish.

BTW, I've downloaded your framework and I'll check it out this week.

marlon

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S. Isaac Dealey wrote:

> I want some advice here, 'cause... I'm ignorant. :)
>
> I got the first hostile post on my blog this morning, and I'd like
> opinions from the community as to whether or not I should remove it.
> For now I've responded with another comment -- not that I necessarily
> needed to, but I was there. :)
>
> The blog entry is here:
>
> http://www.turnkey.to/ontap/docs/blog.cfm?netaction=view&blogdate=2003
> <http://www.turnkey.to/ontap/docs/blog.cfm?netaction=view&blogdate=2003>
> -09-28
>
> Sorry for the line wrap.
>
> In addition to anonymously posting hostile comments which seem to
> highlight the fact that they're unaware of what they're talking about,
> they also misspelled "those" ... heh ...
>
> My thought on the subject is that it's somewhat "ingenuine" (for lack
> of a better word) to delete the hostile post just because it was
> hostile. The phrase "keeping it real" comes to mind, but it's not an
> _expression_ I really use or ever have used, so I think it doesn't sound
> natural when I say it. :) (Anybody else here remember the scene from
> Signs where he says it doesn't sound natural when he curses?) Anyway
> -- so that's why I'm disinclined to remove it myself, but I'm second
> guessing myself, so I wanted some additional opinions.
>
> Personally, I think it's kinda cheap to post something hostile and to
> do it anonymously. I haven't got any hostility myself toward Hal or
> anyone else in the Fusebox community. That's not to say I've never
> posted anything negative or angry -- I get frustrated like everybody
> else, and I try to apologize when I realize that I've offended people.
> Obviously Fusebox isn't my prefered architecture, but I don't see
> anything wrong with that, and I think that as an instructor I could
> provide an unbiased curriculum even teaching both Fusebox and onTap,
> since I don't think there's a necessarily direct relationship between
> preference and understanding. In other words, I don't think I have to
> be ignorant of the merits of Fusebox to personally prefer something
> else. In all honesty, the two frameworks have very different strengths
> and weaknesses.
>
>
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