appealing to Doug/rj

[Derek C. Maus]

As grip(p)ing as this correspondence has been--and I'm sure Mr. McVay is
just super-pleased to be involved in it now--I absolutely, positvely, 100%
no longer fail to see how this has any interest to the entire list in any
way. I agree with Otto that the links you've both been providing as part
of this endless back-and-forth have occasionally been interesting to
explore, but, speaking only for myself, I'm so unbelievably tired of this
mutual sniping about an issue that it seems to me the two of you will
never agree on--it seems to me as much because of the person you're
arguing with as anythin--that I'd just like to make one final impassioned
plea to take this offlist PLEASE. I don't have any desire to be a list
nanny or whatever else, and you're both certainly welcome to continue this
all you want, but it's really, really, really, really boring and
ridiculous at this point.

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dmaus at email.unc.edu         |   human beings if you didn't have some 
UNC-CH, Dept. of English    |   pretty strong feelings about nuclear
http://www.unc.edu/~dmaus/  |   combat."  --Major Kong, DR. STRANGELOVE
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