From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 12:25:53 MDT
On 2 Sep 2002 at 4:47, Hermit wrote:
>
> [Joe Dees] In our combative heydeys, I was blistering off fifty
> replies to Aggasi, just as Hermit was doing to EEA. And many of them
> were addendums to 100+ KB strings. What has been going on recently
> pales by comparison.
>
> [Hermit] Key difference "I was blistering off fifty replies...just as
> Hermit was doing." We were writing them ourselves, for the list. Not
> merely regurgitating other people's words - often without even
> crediting the source - as you seem to have taken to doing.
>
> [Hermit] In addition, if you would maintain the subject line, the
> contents would remain on a single thread, allowing them to be managed
> quite easily via the BBS as a number of Virians do. Unfortunately,
> your list spamming tends to push other people's posts off the current
> views and into history, making the the list and the BBS worthless for
> any opinions but your own. Now that may be what you want. The poll is
> intended to establish if that is what others want.
>
Actually, I posted several of those in response to a query concerning
whether we should also invade Iran (to which I responded in the
provisional negative), to provide support for my position via
contemporary events in the Iranian political scene. I later gave my
sources as MEMRI (for the shorter articles) and the New Yorker and the
Atlantic Monthly (for the longer ones), or did you miss that?
>
> Hermit
>
>
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