"Andy Evans" wrote in message
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If you don't think that
telling people they're not worth taking seriously is being dismissive,
then I come back to saying you're in denial. And I say again, you won't
change because you don't see this and you will systematically continue
as you have done, despite the fact that obviously there are people who
object to not being taken seriously when what they are doing is
genuinely and in good faith providing the sort of comparative listening
data that virtually everybody uses as a lingua franca in the business.

Is Jim not taking people seriously or is he not prepared to take what they
are presenting seriously if they cannot back it up. Big difference with
respect to the intention on Jim's part, ie, **I cannot take you seriously**
or **I cannot take that seriously**