Craig, you have an ongoing pattern of abusing people who disagree with you. Whether by accident or design this imposes a cost for people who wish to say anything that you disagree with (and to some extent to say anything at all on mailing lists you use). You seem to believe that you are entitled to send a stream of profanity to anyone you disagree with and have them just accept it without even disagreeing with you. It may seem like harassment to you to have someone resolutely disagree with your opinions and your behavior. This doesn't mean that it is harassment, merely that your tactics have worked well for you most of the time and you have become used to "winning" debates in this manner over the course of decades of mailing list discussions while other people have become used to receiving profanity. I don't believe that you are more important than me. I don't believe that I should be silenced by your abuse. I am not arguing for an entire absence of profanity on this list. The topics that are discussed tend towards heated discussion. But when messages have profanity without arguments supporting a case it becomes a problem. Anyone who doesn't want to receive mail from me can easily achieve that objective by not sending mail to me. If you send mail to me there is a possibility that I will disagree with you, if I do disagree there's an almost certainty that I will tell you. <cas@taz.net.au>: host taz.net.au[203.16.167.1] said: 550 5.7.1 <russell-sender@coker.com.au>: Sender address rejected: FUCK OFF RUSSELL YOU ANNOYING CUNT! (in reply to RCPT TO command) Sending me nasty mail and configuring your MTA to reject a reply in the above manner is not acceptable behavior. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/