Okay- Just need to vent:

I've joined this message board quite a while and learned a thing or two from you guys here and I think during my visits to this place, I've managed to steer clear from making any enemies...thank goodness I hope it'll stay that way.

I joined different message boards than just this one, and boy I experienced how aggravating to receive personal attacks from differerent members today... this was just a different (non musical) board....I was just venting about my situation of living in the Northwest etc..etc...while somebody else who was NOT even living in the U.S started attacking me and saying I was posting "crap"..ah..I could be having an off day yesterday and today so I took that really hard. Ah, could be that the majority of the members in that forum was in their teens to early 20s. I guess I should be blaming their stupidity on their age...I guess, I don't experience that here (despite a few frictions I noticed between us lately).

Could be that we in your 'older' age are learning to be nicer (at least when we type)?? OR we learn to treat other members nicer due to our understanding that we should extend the same respect to the person we email the same way as if we are talking to them in person??

Ah...I feel like crap, but I'm done venting.