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go ahead... be a heretic  Comment on  Warning: This is a long
post and contains a lot of information. You may or may not agree
with the content of this post. Regardless of your feelings,
please do not reply to this post right away. Take the time to
think about an appropriate response, if this issue is important
to you. Do you like Jon Katz? If you're a regular reader of /.
(Slashdot), you know who he is. Quite often, his posts meet with
vicious, rude, and insulting comments. Katz is hated by many on
/. and they often express this hatred in ways that, frankly, are
not worthy of third-graders.  Is this what we must be reduced
to?  I am not going to mention any names because I don't want
this to become a pointless thread of accusations and counter-
accusations. That is not my intent (of course, if you've been
around for a while, you'll know who I am referring to). Instead,
I would like to solicit the opinion of other Monks regarding how
we can deal wi