Hello, Joe.

Monday February 21 2011 at 12:22, you wrote to me:

 JM> FWIW, Hector and I have never seen eye to eye from day one, so while I
 JM> can easily appreciate your position, I don't think it's something
 JM> worth rehashing. It's just best to leave things like that in the past.

It's not rehashing, Joe, it's what sysops still have to deal with.  If
you'd listened to me, stuck around a while and read, then realized that
you're in the future now and things /really/ haven't changed much since you
were last active, you'll understand that it's not the past at all.  Hector
is still the same creep he was before (I'm told) and you're not the first
nor the last person to not see "eye to eye" with him.

[verbosity omitted]

 JM> With all due respect, this part is becoming painfully obvious.  I wish
 JM> you all the best in its resolution, but don't forget, the type of
 JM> brush one uses determines the quality of the image painted.

With all due respect, you coming in here asking for advice, getting some,
then deciding that it's not what you want to hear and trying to tell ME
that I'm making a bad impression, you need to look in the mirror. 
It's "painfully obvious" that you're fishing for what you want to
hear and you're not finding it.  Just because you're trying to find
qualification to work on your software doesn't mean you have to start
insulting me.

[moderator hat on]
In fact, don't bring up this topic at all anymore in this echo.  Take it
somewhere else where it's more appropriate and while you're at it, read the
echo rules that I posted for your benefit.  You'll see that you might need
to learn to crawl before you walk again in Fidonet and that you've already
broken two echo rules but I've been nice and not said anything yet.  I'll
let you figure out which two.

DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE IN THE ECHO.  Use netmail or email (since
you already have my personal email address).  To be honest, I'd rather you
just not reply at all because it's "painfully obvious" that if
what I say doesn't agree with your sensibilities, you'll just cry about it
and say I'm making a bad name for myself.
[moderator hat off]

Later,
Sean

... Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap.
--- GoldED/2 3.0.1