“Rob, You Should Consider That Your Image Is Very Damaged”

Recent blog entries have reported on the texts of e-mail correspondence that I had with Jim Wiandt and Matt Hougan in an effort to get an article on Valuation-Informed Indexing published at the  www.IndexUniverse.com site. Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent to Matt on January 29, 2008, and his response.

Matt:

Here is the text of an abusive post recently added to the thread on the article re the Bogleheads:

Rob, you should consider that your image is very damaged and that if you ever want to have any shred of respectibility you are going to have to hold yourself to a bit higher standard than mud slinging and pontificating on web articles. I personally think that this is what you enjoy doing but you will never be ‘successful’ if you continue with this deranged behavior.

Posted by Jack, on Tuesday, 29 January 2008

How would you like me to handle this?

Rob

Rob –

I’m the moderator, so I’ll handle it.  I’m deleting the topic wholesale.

I’d just ask that you not respond.

– Matt