jim quoted someone as saying:

The negative reaction you're getting is to your tone and tactics, not your news flash.

now, i didn't see this quote when it came up originally, meaning that it probably came from someone who is in my spam folder, which would mean marcello or zora. i'm betting it's zora, the supreme apologist here for d.p. this is the kind of "blame-the-messenger" crap that they _love_ to do over at d.p. they can't argue with the message, so they talk about your "tone" instead, when it's their own damn fault that you had to adopt that tone in the first place, because they're bound and determined to ignore you totally. and that's because they are incapable of solving anything. and it's interesting to see _why_ d.p. can't solve anything, as the d.p. people here -- right on up to board member newby -- are unable to avoid dragging a thread off-topic. (although we must give marcello credit for a serious detour, by raising a phantom that files are being _stolen_ from d.p.) i mean, seriously, you want to witness something _amazing_, just take a look at recent posts in this thread, were _jim_ is the one who manages to (a) stay on topic! and (b) make sense. jim!, for crying out loud, the same jim who often has difficulty arguing his way out of a wet paper bag, and he's the one here who is doing the _best_, absolutely outshining all of the rest! so, of course, let's attack jim, and his "tone and tactics"... let me break it down to a nutshell... d.p. has thousands of proofers doing p1, the first proof pass. d.p. has hundreds of proofers in p2, the more-careful pass. d.p. has dozens of proofers for p3, the "final final pass" pass. i don't know about you, but i'd expect that a "final pass" will take a closer reading (and thus more time) than a first-pass, but assume p1 and p2 and p3 proofers all take the same time. somehow, however, the fundamental workflow at d.p. expects dozens of p3 people to keep up with thousands of p1 people... this is ridiculous on the face of it. and this is the main problem. or perhaps the _main_ problem is that the d.p. "powers that be" could seriously install such a ridiculous-on-its-face workflow... whichever way we look at it, it's purely and absolutely ludicrous. (quick, somebody please give me more synonyms for "ridiculous.") -bowerbird