On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:14:53 -0000, "Beacon" <beacon@dontmailme> wrote:

>
>"Westprog"  wrote in message 
>news:gi62ro$mtu$1@news.datemas.de...
>> Cat(h) wrote:
>> ...
>>> Ray, I agree with Vernon.  He is more familiar to you than you think
>>> (check out headers).
>>> There is a great proverb - discretion is the greater part of valour.
>>> Most of the time, in a very public forum such as usenet, it is a very
>>> good idea to keep private things just that - private.  There are
>>> enough weirdoes on usenet who will use anything you give them to hit
>>> you with, at some point or another.
>>> Debate issues, and bear in mind that if you hold and express
>>> provocative views, regardless of their nature, it will not please
>>> everyone (not even people initially prepared to pay you for your
>>> contributions).
>>> I'm sorry for your troubles, Ray, but at the risk of sounding a little
>>> unkind, I think you could have saved yourself much of them.
>>
>> I post on this forum regularly. It's full of people who keep telling me 
>> how much they hate me. Really, really hate me. They devote a good portion 
>> of their posts to saying what a prick I am. So naturally I tell them all 
>> my private business, and give them lots of personal details. You wouldn't 
>> believe what happened...
>
>They offered you a job?
>
>Hey remember honesty or stupidity isn't a crime! I don't want to live in a 
>fear society where people do not trust others. 
>

I'm posting to another blog now...  Not paid and anonymous... Still... Gets my
point across...

Ray


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative,
anything you say is hateful." - Laura Schlessinger
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------