};> jim barchuk wrote in a message to Richard Smith <:(
 JB> Hello, Richard Smith, I'd like you to meet my friend,
 JB> Harvey...
 
 RS> Greetings to all.
  JB> Right back! :)
 Thanx.
 RS> Please forgive my intrusion herein.  Normally I just read
 RS> and go with the flow, lurking in the background.  I enjoy
 RS> this conference greatly.
  JB> Cool.
 I've only lurked, off and on, for a couple of years . . .
 RS> However, recently in another conference, 
  JB> What 'conference'?
 HOLYSMOKE
  RS> I don't know enough about them to defend them.
 JB> I don't know anything more to comment on that topic either.
 Well, thanx for that, anyway.
 RS> The person making the statements about the Osage and (it
 RS> seems to me) all Native Americans collectively, is named
 RS> Day Brown. Here's his most recent post:
  >>  On 05-05-98 Karl Schneider wrote to Steve Quarrella...
  >> DB> Really? I thought they killed them all; I know they
 JB> Slightly different comment about 'crossposting' from the
 JB> other recent thread. The above mentioned people, DB, KS,
 JB> SQ, are not 'here' in this echo (or at least very likely
 JB> may not be, if they are they should please raise their
 JB> virtual hand and say 'hi'). The point being that it's
 JB> not fair to -them- that we discuss their opinions behind
 JB> their backs, where they can't see it.
 Agreed.  I hadn't intended for there to be a lot of
 discussion on it, though.  My purpose was aimed elsewhere,
 and was twofold:
 1.  I wanted to find out if anyone knew if Day Brown was
     correct in his assessment of the Osage.
 2.  And I was soliciting information from the readership
     here, said information to be used to balance his
     viewpoints over there.
 Sorry if I didn't make myself entirely clear.
 JB> Thus the burden is upon you, Richard, to please relay
 JB> posts here back to that 'other' echo, and similarly
 JB> relay further comments from 'there' to 'here'. In this
 JB> kind of situation the general disdain of crossposting is
 JB> lifted to an extent to foster 'openness' and full fair
 JB> discussion, you are simply acting as a kind of
 JB> intermediary.
 I was prepared to be exactly that . . . thanx for pointing
 it out.  The last thing I wanted to do was to bring Mr.
 Brown over here to create a ruckus . . . I saw a few years
 ago how another individual was able to do so here with many
 bigoted terms, and had no wish to disturb the harmony of
 this place.
 JB> Thanks much. Have a :-) day.
 No, thank you.  And well wishes to you and yours as well.
 Naturam expellas furca,
 tamen usque recurret.
 Richard Smith
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