Frank,

The glory of Google's gmail has allowed me to view this entire thread in it's entirety as well as in thread order.

The first post was your announcement The first reply (second post) was from Stephen John Smoogen, who asked:

"For those of us who have neither?"

Yeah. Because this statement doesn't give the tone of overt hostility at all.....*eyeroll*

The second reply (third post) was from Jim Perrin, who stated:

"Would you consider posting it to the wiki to share with all?"

Then, your reply to Stephen (fourth post):

"Then there's no reason for you to fricken reply, is there?"

The your reply to Jim (fifth post):

"I actually had a thread I started in the forums about it, however, I stopped monitoring the thread due to people accused me of being an e-mail address harvester."

And, the root of all evil, Karanbir's reply (sixth post):

"and who are you ? and what / where is your firewall doc ?

• KB"

And, we can conclude that you read Stephen's and Jim's posts before replying to Karanbir because you reference them in your reply to him (seventh post):

"So far, two of the three replies, yours being one of them, have left me with the impression that everyone in the CentOS community is the same as the jerks in the forum were. I try to do something to contribute to the community and I just get nothing but negativism."

So, chronology and thread index favors the fact that you were the one who replied inappropriately and began the flame war.

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