John Nall wrote:

>Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>  
>
>>>Not necessarily. I suspect the problem is that Olin did not explain himself
>>>      
>>>
>>too well, and you have a certain amount of hump with him, as IIRC you have
>>run-ins with him before.
>>  
>>    
>>
>.
>Him referring to me as a "modern day hippy" you mean??  :-)  Nah.  So 
>far as I am aware Olin and I get along just fine.  I have exchanged 
>private emails with him (regarding purchasing stuff from Embed, Inc) 
>before and he is a pleasure to deal with.  He just has a low tolerance 
>for stupidity, that's all. 
>
>
>  
>
I think it is even simpler than that. Olin genuinely wants to help 
newbies, and he wants to
address as many Q's as possible, and in the process, he sometimes uses a 
choice of
words that some folks are offended by due to speed of the answer..

Frankly, he's  an outstanding contributor to the PICLIST.

--Bob

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