Peter

Don't be offended and do not be taken in by it all. The three notes above mine were all written by the same person and I suspect he also wrote most (or all) of the childish responses that you received on your previous blogs.

Believe me, it is just one sick miserable person that has no better life than to sit around and cowardly insult you. It is evidently some new disease where certain individuals spend an inordinate amount of time on lots of blog sites and just spew insults and have bizarre reactions to bloggers comments.

Your own advice was best. Delete the comments that are not professionally written and both you (blogger) and us (readers) can move on.

Wish you the best.

Good Evening Again,

I really don't believe that Mr. Kany or Mr. Hurd really exist. Some mentally unstable individual is sending comments to the blogs and just uses other people's email and names. I would just remove his posts and not dialogue too much with him because it is one of those creepy emotional instabilities where the sick person gets his jollies by getting you to play with him. They only go away when you ignore them.

Again, thank you for your perceptive analysis and excellent advice, which I will follow.

I hope that at some point I will be able to generate general comments that will help the blog to be more interactive and informative.

Mr. Cutler,

I exist. Please feel free to send me an email or give me a phone call.

Good luck with the conversation!

Dan Kany

I assure you Dan Kany does exist.

For the record, I do not question Mr. Kany's existence.

As much as you dislike it, it is the comments that raise the ire of others that often build a blogs popularity. Maybe you need to grow a thicker skin, after all you admit, "I am new at this blog business". If you are going to delete comments that don't conform to your ideals, it's not really an open forum is it?

I don't think that Mr. Cutler is concerned with anyone that disagrees with him. It is just the personal comments that people were making because he felt different than they did. The reality is that most of the comments are written by the same person just using other peoples names and email addresses.

Mr. Pearce,

Thank you for the thoughtful comment.

It is not my goal to have a blog designed to be the kind of "open forum" where people can hurl personal insults at one another, rather than engaging in thoughtful, productive dialog. Disagreement is encouraged as long as it is conducted in a polite, civil fashion following the generally accepted rules of formal debate.

Perhaps these requirements will limit the popularity of this blog. On the other hand, some of the people who have written comments have some good points to make if they would be willing to separate out the attack language. Should someone decide to write in and disagree with what you have said, using personal attacks and accusations, I would remove these comments also.

Is there a fine line involved? Yes. But there is also a challange, for those willing to accept it.