-> You recall wrong, and your second sentence shows that you completely
failed
-> to understand what was going on.


Perhaps so.

  I made no effort to affect the rules in
-> his echo.  I merely followed them.

You test them. I follow your testing,with some interest :-)



  He violated the rules in my echo...

I didn't know you had one. Which is it?

, and
-> directly threatened to ban me from his echo if I enforced the rules
against
-> him.

Ah. Your echo; I was referring to another one.

  Funny thing: that was HIS definition of "echo sabotage."

I know what it is and I witnessed it. Once, maybe a couple of times...
I did't know it involved YOU.

...it was
-> pretty clearly just a pretext to get me out of his echo.  He tried many
-> times to find other pretexts, but since I followed the rules there he
-> didn't have a good opportunity.

What a game...
-> 
-> He'd still be in my echo if he were able to behave the way HE thinks
people
-> should be forced to behave.

Well I haven't followed you too closely in his echo...he may be picky but
he recognizes those who wish to slip around the rules, ignoring the spirit
and intent of the echo itself...(I'm not talking about you) And in MY
opinion
he does excellent well.) YOU seem to me to be a technical purist (NOT a bad
thing)...but, as you point out, I could recall incorrectly. (A hard thing
to admit)
    

  And I'd still be in his echo if he weren't so
-> petty and vindictive about having his hypocrisy exposed.  But this is
how
-> he wants it, and so life goes on.  The only upside of it all is that the
-> situation has made a more honest person of him.  He often lies when he
is
-> losing an argument on the facts, and now that he has avoided a lot of
-> disagreement by booting most of the people who disagree with him he
doesn't
-> give in to the temptation to lie nearly as much.

Lie is an oft' and ill used word. I have never witnessed or perceived a lie
by him. He's not perfect, (Only I am perfect) but calling a person a liar
is
to me, a gun-slinging word. :-|
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