"Maxprop" wrote ...

You're absolutely right, of course. I couldn't agree
more. My point is:
if you were discussing this with Joe over a beer and
chips/salsa, would you
have referred to him as a "belligerent dumb-ass" to his
face? The
impersonal nature of Usenet seems to bring out the worst
sort of
belligerence in us all, I think.


Over beers and chips/salsa? I would call him a ''dumb-ass
Texan red neck lubber'' , while smiling, of course.

Scotty