>If you refer to things people say that you disagree with as "screeds," they'll eventually stop talking to you. A fair point. Although I expect you'd be just

>If you refer to things people say that you disagree with as "screeds," they'll eventually stop talking to you. A fair point. Although I expect you'd be just as effective if you'd just catted it to /dev/null. I'll paraphrase what I said in my original comment: "Just because you don't agree with the ideas presented by others, it doesn't mean that those others are angry and their presentation of such ideas is a 'screed'." That some folks don't get that is unfortunate, but not all that unexpected.