CompuServe Messages

>>As for being open minded: I listen and I try to be reasonable. Out of all the nonsense in your message, this leapt out at me. You "listen" and "try to be reasonable". If you listened – in this case, read – you would know that I am a woman and my name is Dana, not Dean. Three different people wrote you messages referring to me as "she", "her", "Dana" and "Ms. Parker". Three different people objected to your uncalled-for rudeness in response to my attempts to help – and yet you insist otherwise. Perhaps this explains why you still have a problem – you may be failing to comprehend other information as well. This also explains why you saw "subtle activity" and an "attack" when it was no such thing. If you want a technical answer, you must give ALL the details, and if the details are not consistent, then say so. It is not an attack or calling you a liar to point out discrepancies in your reported symptoms – it is an effort to understand what the symptoms really are. You can hardly wonder that you are not getting the answer you want when you are not giving all the information, and deliberately misunderstanding the responses you get. What possible reason would I have to attack you or call you a liar? Are you a little paranoid? Furthermore, if this is the level of reading comprehension at which you normally function, it is no wonder you failed to see the value of what I was telling you, and instead saw a non-existent "attack". To compound this by attacking in earnest, and then commending yourself for being "honest and forthright" as well as "reasonable" is absurd. >>I am certain that you have asked a question. Then, somebody replies with a stupid response, or even an attack. They take a cheap pot-shot and nit pick some totally irrelivant detail. This wastes your time and digresses the conversation to drivel. Well, that is what happened to me. Rather than ask questions or offer suggestions I was simply attacked because my data looked inconsistent. It's bad style and counter-productive. What is counter-productive is rejecting a response as "stupid" because you don't happen to like it. The members of this forum know better than you do whether my response was stupid to whether the deatil was irrelevant, and no one but you thinks that you were attacked – quite the opposite. You do need new glasses – and a fresh attitude.