On Wed, 08 Apr 2015, Kees van Eeten wrote to mark lewis:

 KvE>>  What a horrible thought, I am glad that such echo's are a thing 
 KvE>> of the past.

 ml> actually, they are not a thing of the past... what has happened is 
 ml> that the majority of users have left and what is predominately 
 ml> seen now is the sysops and how they carry on about the way the 
 ml> network is being handled... no one can get anything changed 
 ml> because everyone has to be right and their way is the only way... 
 ml> even when it isn't...

 KvE>  You read what is written literally.

there is no other way to take it without any sort of sarcasm tags or
emoticons...

 KvE> When I read it, it oozes irony. 

irony? how?

 KvE>  But a fact is,that we will never agree. That is in our history. 

i remain optimistic... optimistic in the same way that i remain optimistic that
others will stop repeating the same mistakes they have been making all these
years that continue the arguments...

 KvE> Your country was populated by people who did not agree with the
 KvE> environment  where they lived and chose to leave. To do so you
 KvE> have to have a different  mind set..

"was populated"? "is populated" would seem better but in this day in time with
so many pacificists around, i guess "was" is more accurate...

"chose to leave"??  many didn't choose to leave... they were forced out...

)\/(ark