Ladies and Gentlemen:
If you simply *must* continue to discuss this thread, *please* take the
discussion off-line from the list.
Our generous host, the University of Arkansas, donates the services and
infrastructure which support this forum with the understanding that the
discussion is primarily of a technical nature. We all realize that
almost any conversation in a group such as ours will, from time to time,
go careening off on less technical but much more colorful tangents.
Small doses of this are a Good Thing -- they serve as the "spice in the
stew" and remind us that the conversations take place in a group of real
people with real personalities, instead of a collection of several
hundred keyboards all over the globe blandly clattering back and forth
at one another.
If I may be forgiven for pursuing the culinary metaphor, our stew is
somewhat over-seasoned with this particular spice. Many of us receive a
high volume of electronic mail on a daily basis. Overenthusiastic
pursuit of "bunny trail" tangents such as this diminishes the value of
the forum by generating an increasingly unfavorable signal-to-noise
ratio on the list, and is a disservice to both our host and to the
members of our community.
To summarize: "Let it go."
If you can not bear to do so, please make use of "Reply To" (or
equivalent) and continue the discussion outside this forum.
Your humble, if rather grumpy moderator,
-dan.
Daniel P. Martin - IBMVM List Janitor
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