--=======6D796D93======Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-8C7175E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
JSQ,
I have never sailed into Ad Hominem on the list. Not my sea. But I have
stopped writing to the list mostly because my Email ID does collect bruises
off list from list members, not my cousin.
Please continue in your role.
At 08:51 AM 17/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Thank you, Donald, for trying to bring sanity back.
>
>The list belongs to its members.
>
>However, we have one camp, led by Niven and including almost the entire
>British former membership, which has decamped, refusing to answer questions
>about its assertions on a range of topics, even though many of us,
>including Laurel and me, once assumed that they had such answers.
>
>We have Philippe, who has tried for years to get discussion going,
>often indeed in a deliberately acerbic manner trying to get people
>to respond, and gets himself shot at instead of his arguments.
[ Excess quotations omitted. ]
--=======6D796D93======Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-8C7175E
Content-Disposition: inline
---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.426 / Virus Database: 239 - Release Date: 2/12/02
[ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@quarterman.org
[ To get off or on the list, see http://sinclair.quarterman.org/list.html