<thoran / thoran.com> wrote in message 
news:f07a9ed5114e65bbdddb855068092341 / shiny...
> Dear Spamhater,
>
> When it gets ad hominem is when I perceive it as an attack.  Staying 
> strictly to the subject does not get seen this way.  I only took issue 
> with it because I dislike the tenor that it sets for the list. 
> Uncooperative, unhelpful, arrogant, argumentative people such as yourself 
> are a blight.

    I couldn't help but notice you haven't quoted anything.
    It would be helpful to see exactly what you interpreted as an "ad 
hominem" attack so that I may avoid it in the future, especially when 
responding to you.  It was never my intention to attack you and I have 
never wrote anything to do so.


> Yours and one or two others' emails were (loosely) ad hominem, not 
> strictly in so far as the argument is concerned because there wasn't much 
> being put by way of an argument by me to begin with (as much as you seem 
> to wish to disagree with this), but in so far as where criticisms were 
> being directed.

    Criticism is not an attack.  To what criticisms are you referring?