Hi Gaven,

If I may. Perhaps you could look at this from another point of view. I know that it is often hard to accept or feel fault and I'm not trying to place fault on you, rather I'd like to make a little bit of an analogy.

Let's say that you join the Army and after training for 4 weeks as an Infantryman, they now ship you off to some hostile place where the Army is at War. They have you join a crew of Rangers that has been fighting together for 2 years now. They have established quite a bond with each other. Then when you show up, you have a new idea that you present to them, but the presentation didn't go as well as you planned. Somehow, accidentally it now appears as though you are attacking one of their long time buddies. Now all of the guys have started to form a disliking to you. At this point (in my humble opinion) you could do a couple things.

1. Apologize and hope that you could blend in with the guys in the near future (even if you felt you had done nothing wrong).

2. Ignore them and go about your merry way, realizing that in the future when your life might depend upon one of them, that they would not come to your rescue. (I know that programming is not the same life threatening circumstance here, but I’m trying to get a point across)

3. Continue to protest and acert your rights and feelings on the matter. (which in most cases would still garner ill feeling from the other guys).

What I'm trying to say is, as a new guy I personally think it would be easier and perhaps more prudent to suck it up. Yes you can continue to disagree or fight it, but bottom line is that as a new comer to this board it is difficult to "blow-up" and expect anyone to continue to help you. This has now become more a matter of social graces rather then "who is right".

[ 09. July 2003, 03:30: Message edited by: NTDOC ]