An Explanation
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:52:21 -0700 (00908261541, 2.2.32.19981013015221.008b44d4@midwest.net)
At 09:01 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.
>
>M.BELL
>I suggest you read the initial post again. YOUR post states that you had
>received another post from a CCBE member whom I had removed from the list. That
>is your statement, no-one else's. That you are too lazy and inept to check out
>your sources fact is not my problem.
>>
TILL
Very well, here is exactly what I said in the statement that I used to
introduce that posting.
>Here is another message that was sent to me by a CCBE member whom Bell >has
removed from his list. Her comments are certainly not favorable to the
>errantist position, but I want everyone on Errancy to see them. If enough
people >on CCBE express their opinions to Bell, perhaps he will begin to
realize that we >have been right in telling him that he is his own worst
enemy. We were trying to >tell him this even before he formed his CCBE
group. Since this person did not >say whether she objected to my forwarding
this message to Errancy, I am >deleting her name and address. She herself
did not send the message to me but >was forwarded to me by another CCBE
member. The one who actually wrote the >message, whom I will identify as
Pxxxx Kxxx, has at times forwarded CCBE >postings to me.
I said that the message (understood to be the message that followed) was
sent to me by a CCBE member whom Bell has removed from his list. After
additional comments about wanting everyone on the Errancy list to see these
comments, I said that "(s)he herself did not send the message to me but was
forwarded to me by another CCBE member." As if this is not enough to show
that I was not saying that the writer of the posting had sent the message to
me, I went on to say that "(t)he one who actually wrote the message, whom I
will identify as Pxxxx Kxxx, has at times forwarded CCBE postings to me."
So clearly I was not saying that PK, the author of the posting, had sent it
to me. Someone else did, and if you are on a fishing expedition to try to
get me to reveal who that other party was, forget it. I'm not going to tell
you. The mutiny of your list members is a problem of your own creation, so
live with it or else change your policies to try to control the rebellion.
In another posting, I noted that my final sentence was erroneous, because
upon checking (after you had accused PK of being a liar), I found that what
she sent me was just a copy of your "screening questions."
You're still working hard on your personal vendetta, aren't you? Why don't
you devote some of the time you're wasting on stuff like this to trying to
respond to my postings that have you hamstrung.
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net