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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (46620)	4/30/2002 7:32:10 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

Okay, I'll speak for myself. I, personally, feel that that following clarification will be useful to you: SI Admin does not take a position on posting PM's unless the sender has made clear they want them to remain private. There are two differences between the exchanges between you and Laz and the ones between you and Poet that you claim to be in possession of and are threatening to post publicly. 1) You never indicated that yours were private, and Poet has made perfectly clear that hers, whatever they may be, are. 2) Yours were in effect a blackmail attempt, ie, You do this (let me post on SMBR, Laz,) OR I will do that, to Poet. (As everyone knows, blackmail attempts, or insinuated threats made to get something to get someone one wants, are best defused by being made public immediately; and anyone who makes them has rather a lot of chutzpah to pout that their attempt has been exposed.)

To: The Philosopher who wrote (46620)	4/30/2002 7:49:35 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm interested in intelligent discourse again, and am now letting you know, as you have suggested. Would you please clarify the analogy you are making between your threat to post personal communications made to you by Poet at at time a year or so ago when you were friends unless Lazarus Long allows you to "defend" yourself against "attacks" you refuse to identify (on a thread created expressly to shield Poet from your obsession with her)...and the purchase of a toaster from Walmart? If Walmart sent me a note saying that unless my friends and I let them come to our parties, at which they'd formerly behaved badly, they would beat me over the head with a toaster -- then I could see the analogy!