Okay, this is actually a reply to an email that Pstolsky sent me. I'm posting it here to hear what others have to say about it. Pstolsky, in response to your question, people here (from what I've been told) think that you're the "boing" guy because at some point, he posted one of his messages with your email address attached. Now, I wasn't here at the time so I didn't see the message and didn't have a chance to look at it. It could have been you not realizing that everyone could tell who you were by your email address, or it could have been the boing guy framing you by changing his email address to match yours so that everyone would think that it was you. Like I said, I wasn't here so I don't know. But I can give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that it was him setting you up. In response to your other question, "Do I act like the boing guy?", I wouldn't know. I know very little about you since I can only make judgments about you based on what you post to the group. I don't know you personally. And I know even less about the boing guy, since all I have to judge him by is "boing asdlfjaslfhslkd....". If I had to make a judgment on him, I'd say that he's probably a young-teenaged kid with too much time on his hands who just needs attention. Does this match my opinion of you? I'm not sure. All I know about you is that you are too quick to enter flame wars, you made a point of spamming my personal email account (which couldn't have been an accident, because I have an anti-spam tag), and you are the type of person who would take a newsgroup troll personally enough to try to get the whole group to harass him on AOL IM, when you could just as easily put him on killfile (Docwomung hasn't yet changed his screen name). So, do I think you're the boinger? You very well could be. It's not that far of a stretch. Whether you are or not, one thing IS for certain, and that is that you're not helping the group any by responding to trolls and harassing them on AOL IM. Some of us have killfiled the trolls, and the only way we'll see their messages is if someone else responds to them. So please, whatever your motivation or reasoning, just leave the trolls alone so the rest of us can reclaim the newsgroup. If you're really worried about what the rest of the group thinks about you, this is the best way to regain respect from the group, I guarantee it. And, if you don't, then it's also a way to LOSE respect and solidify everyone's opinion that you're just a troll. Thanks for everyone's time who made it this far, I'd appreciate it if you'd reply to this post with some comments of your own so that Pstolsky can see that I'm right (or I can see thet I'm wrong ;) ). Thank you, and goodnight.
Jeff