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[nobody]

Steve Horne wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:47:26 -0700, "John Reimer"
> <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Your post was well within the toleration margin of this group.
> 
> OK - so maybe I'm being paranoid. Sorry.

There is the saying just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out 
to get you. Of course I had no idea you are an Aspie. I actually just read my 
first thread by another Aspie yesterday in comp.lang.scheme:

   http://tinyurl.com/lvxe5

 From what I have read most people without Asperger syndrome on the net also 
have the same difficulty in correctly interpreting the emotional tone of typed 
newsgroup posts, forum posts and IM messages.

 From what I have seen of your posts they generally seem to be reasonable and 
lack anything that strikes me as being hostile. In fact your posts generally 
come across as being somewhat less hostile than the general post. I imagine that 
after years of struggling to learn to interact with people offline without 
emotional clues has given you a headstart of sorts in communicating in a medium 
without any real emotional context.

Also in your favor is the general history of the D newsgroup being a uniquely 
mellow newsgroup. There seems to be only one thread in which someone used the 
term Nazi and that use was self-referential:

   http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/32378.html

This observation seems to provide not just one example but a class of 
counter-examples to Godwin's Law:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law

So I think it is safe to say you should have nothing to worry about in this 
newsgroup. Certainly you have nothing to worry about from me especially after 
you went to such trouble to make sure your posting is not misinterpreted.