>  Now if you really want to advocate something start out with a 
> positive mindset and worse say, "don't expect a response".

Hi Ken,

I apologize if you took this the wrong way - what I said in my original email was that 
I was not a member of SLUG, and therefore if you expected a response from me you'd 
need to email me directly.  By no means did I mean "do not expect a response from 
me"...only that you would need to use Reply-All otherwise I wouldn't get it.

> I am responding to ensure that Open Source as a whole is represented in
> a positive light.  Imagine if I posted a tirade about how bad the other
> open source projects that provide the same facilities as
> OpenOffice.org.  I do not declare it the best for every instance,
> gnumeric possibly is the better spreadsheet for simpler sheets for
> example.

Again, I didn't mean my email to be negative...if it was taken that way, then either I 
wrote it wrong or it was read wrong... it was intended as a [good spirited] rebuttal 
to the previous, more malicious message that started this thread - which I feel was 
more guilty of negativity than my own reply was.  Completely void of any real facts 
and designed as more of a poke than a real informative message.  I hope I provided 
enough information to balance the original thread out, but being nasty was not my 
intention.

>  If you genuinely want to convert people then subscribe for a while and offer
> assistance to help others to install dspam.

I actually wasn't originally looking to convert anyone, just rebut an email...but I am 
more than glad to help anybody who is looking to use DSPAM, as are the many other 
members of the dspam-users mailing list.  Please feel free to email me directly or 
email the dspam-users list and I'll be glad to help out.  For obvious reasons, I can't 
be a member of every open-source mailing list out there, but I do appreciate the 
invitation.

Jonathan


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