various goodbyes--another word from our sponsor

[Bruce Appelbaum]

     Oh boy, cat fight!


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Subject: Re: various goodbyes--another word from our sponsor
Author:  Vaska Tumir <vaska at geocities.com> at Internet
Date:    9/25/1997 11:27 PM


Chris writes:
     
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>At any rate, I'm not intending to open this up for conjecture.  I prefer 
>to keep the speculations, along with any further flaming, off-list.  OK? 
     
Not at all, Chris: after sending me a very bitter and self-righteously whiny 
UNSOLICITED mesage to "leave [you] alone" [?] and then another one "to go 
away," you have some cheek indeed to pose here *and* publicly as a mediator 
and a voice of reason.  Please take a few deep breaths and do us all a 
favour by stopping your various behind-the-scenes games and moves rampantly 
hypocritical.  Acrimony, and I don't think this will be news to anyone, gets 
out of hand when it is "managed" in such sneaky ways as you propose.  Maybe 
THAT's one of the major reasons why there's so much tension and intolerance 
around here -- and not just from time to time, but erupting consistently 
like a dormant but still regularly active volcano.  Keeping things out in 
the open might defuse the tendency of that "invisible" hostility to 
accumulate and do its harm....  
     
Remove the screen afforded by the off-list attack mode, and who knows, it 
may even allow us to know and understand one another better.  Or with fewer 
illusions, at any rate. 
     
Vaska
     
P.S.  Nor is Chris the only person on this list who delights in what I 
regret but do not apologize for calling semi-sicko off-list behaviour -- 
towards those whom they haven't met.  Is that the excuse, perhaps?  Wiser 
heads than mine will no doubt come with the right answer....