Randal,

I received no reply when I questioned you about your meaning when you called me a fool, so I thought you simply may not have seen my reply requesting an explanation. I would like to request instead that you remove your standard disclaimer link from your signature, since what is alleged in the disclaimer is untrue.

The text of your disclaimer is as follows:

Attention!
The following comment is never meant personally. You are not your code. I most likely do not even know you personally, and don't make presumptions about your character or habits based on a single posting. I'm only commenting on the ability for the code you posted to do its stated task, with particular attention being paid to :
  • Security
  • Maintainability
  • Avoiding needless reimplementation
  • Contribution to the community
If I sound like I'm flaming, please re-read the message a few more times until you see that it's about the code and the Perl community, and not about you personally. That is all. Thank you.

After doing some casual searching through your posts, I have found other examples of personal attacks, such as calling another poster a fool, and making a decree that those who downvoted a particular post of yours were losers. Neither of those examples, or the example of where you personally attacked me, seem to fit in the "it's only about the code" category.

I enjoy heated arguments, and I think people screaming at each other in their posts over trifles is high comedy. That's what make Slashdot and Fark fun, that's what makes you and Abigail fun. I'll still enjoy seeing your comments on my posts, critical or supportive, technical or personal. But "it's all about the code"? That's just not true.

Lastly, I'm asking you this as though I'm asking an average joe, not someone on a pedestal, even though you are clearly someone whose "...offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide..."

Thanks,
Curtis

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