An Explanation

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At 07:46 PM 10/12/98 +0100, Matthew Bell wrote:

>> >M.BELL

>> >Please note the address above, kord2@yahoo.com. It is that of Paula Kord,

>whom

>> >you stated I had kicked.

>> >

>> 

>> TILL

>> When did I say that you had kicked her off the list?  Why don't we look at

>> what I really said.

>

>M.BELL

>Well, I stand corrected. Perhaps one day you will have the humility to do so.


TILL
Then you should be interested in a posting I just sent in which I
acknowledged that I was actually the one who had revealed PK's identity to
the list by forgetting that I was responding to a posting you had sent to me
privately but whose response I had addressed to the Errancy list.

BELL

>You stated I had her removed from my list. This information is incorrect. She

>has at no time been removed from my list, nor has she been since your post.

>


TILL
Gee, Matt, you say that you "stand corrected," and then you turn right
around and repeat the claim on which you had just "stood corrected."  I
didn't say that you had removed her from the list.  The person who forwarded
her posting to me had said that you had removed HIM from the list.


>F.TILL

>> So you see PK's posting was forwarded to me by another CCBE member who said

>> that you had forced his termination.  Look at next to the last sentence.

>> Didn't I say that she (PK) didn't actually forward the message to me?

>

>M.BELL

>The person who forwarded such did not send you my response then? Perhaps had

>they done so the egg wouldn't be running so much all over your face. 

>


TILL
No, I didn't get the response.  As for egg running all over my face, that's
funny, coming from one who is treading desperately to keep his nose above
water.  As someone else suggested, why don't you just cut your loses and go
on to something else?  You'll someday look back on this as not one of your
finest hours.

TILL

>> 

>> You do try hard to nail me on something, don't you, Matt?  Why don't you put

>> aside your personal vendetta and try to engage in a debate on the issues?

>> You're like the ancient kings who killed the messengers who brought bad

>> news, and you have made a complete horse's ass of yourself.

>

>M.BELL

>I would not waste my time on a personal vendetta with a man such as yourself.


TILL
Yes, we can all see that you wouldn't.  That's why you're working so
frantically on your web page you keep warning me about, isn't it?  You're
doing it because you don't want to waste your time on a man like me.

BELL

>The issue is about truth, principle and morality, all of whom appear to be

>strangers to you.

>> 


TILL
Yeah, right!  If the issue is truth, principle, and morality, then why don't
you direct at least some of your attention to answering other postings on
the blood-water issue?  Michael Fisher has made some good points about
ecological matters that indicate the falsity of the Exodus record of the
plagues, so why don't you address those points?

TILL

>> By the way, while you were sending me all of these private messages, you

>> could have been replying to my responses to the "points" that you claimed I

>> had evaded.

>> At any rate, the above cc list was prepared from postings that were

>> forwarded to me and by other means that I won't divulge to you.  As far as I

>> know, some of them may not be your list now, so the fact that PK is on my cc

>> list of CCBE members would be no indication that she is still on the list.

>

>M.BELL

>CCBE will respond to your posts at their convenience.

>


TILL
That's not good enough, Matt.  When I didn't jump immediately to go through
certain postings of yours point by point, you branded me an evader.  What
entitles you to time that you weren't willing to give me?

You're just about all alone on this now, aren't you?  

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net

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