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To: E who wrote (47850)	5/17/2002 12:53:05 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) of 82486

You asked about documentation. Your hearsay is not documentation, not that I disbelieve you, but CH very well might.......We have here a trivialization of terms so profound it is depressing. "Blackmail" is a serious charge. The toorabout was voluntary. Chris thought Poet and others were unfairly treating him, by limiting his ability to participate well beyond not addressing Poet directly (and what about the Ignore button?) or making personal allusions. His outburst amounted to saying "If you will not treat me with reasonable consideration, why should I observe the toorabout?" That might be a spiteful ejaculation, but it is not blackmail. Blackmail is a threat to ruin someone's reputation by forwarding damaging information to interested parties. It is not extortion, which is a threat of violence against person or property unless a bribe is paid. It is an excited utterance by someone frustrated at nearly total ostracism, after virtually all conversation moved to SMBR, and he couldn't get what he considered a fair deal. He may have been unreasonable, or childish, even, but that is not the same as being a blackmailer......

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