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Message: <blockquote data-quote="merton_monk" data-source="post: 408825" data-attributes="member: 4361">Harsh reponses not necessaryJust because someone asks about or for the pre-3.0.0 data files does not mean they deserve a harsh response.  I doubt most people who ask for them are aware of the legalities involved - I doubt most of the people who are aware of the legalities actually understand the legalities!  If someone posts a rude request for the files, then I have no problem with someone giving them a rude response - though I find that polite responses in the face of rude requests works just as well as rude responses and doesn't cause my blood pressure to rise.  So I definitely favor polite responses except in response to extremely rude behavior.  If someone just asks about the data or wonders where all the splat books are in PCGen, there's a "canned" response I wrote the a number of users have been good about posting in response - and yes, I think it's polite! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I'll post on the yahoo board as well just to help diminish the chance that someone will respond rudely to an innocent question.</blockquote>