Carol,

I don't think we should make this thread into a private match. I won't respond to you here in this thread after this post except perhaps with thematic content.

I don't know why and what my contribution to that is but you fail to understand me and my motivation nearly each time you try.

When I wrote "The type (of links) I dislike is the look-how-many-websites-I-know-sharing-my-opinion type" that was an explanation as response for instance to TIA's Dismissing provision of sources as a "link throwing match" is, to me, a concession that you are not interested in data -- damn the facts, full speed ahead. I just wanted to make sure in that paragraph that I do appreciate links in general.

My paragraph was not about you! I only have mentioned you as a positive example in that paragraph about links. You are but one of several people I have in mind that sometimes cross the line from which on I start disliking their link orgy. (You are by far not the worst offender in my eyes, but I don't want to start a new off-topic match). And, by the way, after citing a sentence by me in which I tell what I dislike, you should not write "This is entirely incorrect" as if you would know better than I what I dislike.

It is an assumption on your part that I don't also have a deep sympathy for this very same thing.

Huh? That whole paragraph in my post was not at all about you. You are not as often in my mind as you think you are. I have spoken about my feelings, my experiences and my sympathies. That paragraph, set off visibly of the rest of my post was addressed to 'all' (who may care reading about some background for my sympathies). By the way, the only person I had particularly in mind when writing this paragraph was New York City. When I write about me I make no assumptions whatsoever about others, especially I do never make the assumption that someone else does not share my feelings.

Carol, like here you read some implication from my post that is nowhere in my words and definitely not in my mind.

Wolfgang