Hi Pierre,

Nobody here needs me to defend them, so let me just give my point of
view as a list-subscriber here.

1) It's fine if you don't like the term, or idea, of gurus, but there
   *are* people in the REBOL community who have deep REBOL knowledge,
   and are generous with it. They've been around, and have earned our
   respect. We value their opinions *very* highly. Ladislav, Volker,
   and Gabriele are three of these people. 

   If you disagree with anyone here, that's no problem. The value in
   this list comes from open discussion, new views, and sharing
   knowledge. You seem like a real thinker--one who understands things
   at much deeper level than most--which is great, but your posts (my
   opinion only here) are coming across more like "I'm right and
   you're wrong", rather than being in the spirit of finding common
   ground and better explanations for things. Since I don't know much
   about you, but I do know the local gurus, I'll naturally give more
   weight to their opinions.

2) This is a global community. Fortunately, for people like me,
   English is the language we generally use to discuss REBOL. It's not
   the first language of everyone here, and I *really* appreciate the
   effort it takes for people to work in this common ground. Your
   "look that one up..." comment was totally uncalled for. I mention
   it because another, very special, thing about the REBOL community
   is its friendliness. We have very few flame wars; people get along
   amazingly well, even though many of us have vastly different
   opinions about things.

I hope you take this in the spirit it was written, constructively. I
didn't post it publicly to make you defend your position, or yourself,
but rather as a general reminder for all of us.

Thanks for listening,

-- Gregg                         

P.S. Hey folks, don't forget you can tag your messages, with blocks
leading the subject, and REBOL.org will index them. -G

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