<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ap2110:
When reviewing the whole of IJK's postings his positions are clear and rather appalling. Others may see my post as a flame but IJK may actually take it as a compliment. Allowing the post to remain would give IJK the benefit to state his postions and rebut my post if he so desires. If IJK opts not to respond, fine, we continue on.
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An irrelevant distinction in my opinion.
Personally, I may [in fact do] find many if not most of
your posts "appalling" if not merely frustratingly two-dimensional in their presentation. If I [we] were to use your line of reasoning above then I would be justified, based on my personal "evaluation" of your posting history, to label you something like [for the sake of argument] "a Hitler loving, kitten drowning fascist."
It should be apparent to all [I hope] that such an example and such a response is completely unacceptable.
I fail to see why this is even an issue.