I was hoping that when I went to look at the stuff the Fontman has posted on other forums, I would find out that he is a totally 2-dimensional scumball. That way I could have rested comfortably in this protected community of really nice, friendly, creative artistic people, and just forget the whole Fontman thing, and just ignore him whenever he rears his ugly head.
Unfortunately, my search at Google on "Fontman" came up with a bunch of completely appropriate input he has made to several forums, including the one Ross posted a link to above. Admittedly, this Fontman fellow appears to be a tad rough about the edges, and an enormous distance farther towards the political right than I hope ever to become (he would likely consider me to be a bit of a socialist pinko, like "Meathead" on All in the Family). However, his input on these other forums is completely in keeping with the forums' purposes.
In the case of the item to which Ross has posted a link, the board to which the Fontman posted is entitled "Flame Wars and Debates", and the Fontman's post appears to be in the nature of an example of a flame. The replies to his post are either positive, or are playing along with his flame humour. I offer here two other forums I found to which the Fontman has posted entirely appropriate material: here and here.
I must say that I am really not comfortable in the role of apologist for somebody like the Fontman over against the other great people I really like to spend time connecting with in this Xara forum. However, I think that it is vitally important that we learn how to treat all people with respect (which literally means "look again"). Otherwise not just this forum, but the world as a whole is in deep doo-doo.
I hope now to move on to lighter topics.
Glen.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don’t.
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