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[greg pryzby]

TOP POSTING!

I personally find Bryan helpful and hopes he stays. His comments are ON 
TOPIC and helpful. Or that is my take and experience.

On 10/21/2009 03:05 PM, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> I'm completely annoying.  It's in my sig.  I've always been that way.  ;)
> Some people call me a "lightning rod" and that's quite appropriate.
>
> The side-effect is that I actually help people with their issues, both
> on-list and off-list.  I'm on-site at my client about 11-12 hours/day,
> so I end up doing 1-2 hours of various, technical postings.
>
> Regardless (and I will repeat this once again) ...
>
> I make the same promise to everyone.  If they find me annoying to
> the point that just one person doesn't want me on a list, I stop posting
> to the list and just help people off-list.  It's that simple.
>
> Ironically the few people that I suggest such to seem to ignore that
> option.  They'd rather just use the list to complain about me, which
> makes me laugh.
>
> I.e., I can recognize and am self-aware that I can be an opinionated
> SoB -- fully admit it, I have my experiences with the related, resulting
> biases.  I try to honestly help people, even if annoying at times, or
> what some might consider to be the wrong approach.
>
> So I don't know what some people are trying to accomplish by
> complaining about me on-list, but not taking me up on my promise to
> not post if they would just tell me not to.  It's a quick "vote power" I
> give to every person, and yet they don't.
>
> I can only assume it's because they'd rather just complain than allegedly
> "resolve the issue" that I am by asking.  ;)