Hello Dick.
 R>> I received, and responded to, your internet email.
 RM> Oh, what a short memory you have.  You responded to the email I sent
 RM> after the issue was raised on the echo when you got back from
 RM> vacation. You DID NOT respond to the email I sent long before then.
 RM> Of course not, you were on vacation.  But, hey how was I to know that
 RM> then, seeming how you never mentioned a word about it until AFTER you
 RM> got back.
I received two pieces of internet mail from you, and responded to both.
 R>> If you consider it interesting that routed
 R>> netmail might get lost, then perhaps you haven't become used to
 R>> this fact.
 RM> In all these years I spent on international Fidonet, it has only
 RM> happened with mail to you,... and (BTW) I was sending quite a lot back
 RM> then.  Thus I find it really interesting that it ONLY happened with
 RM> mail to you.
You have apparently had better luck with routing netmail than I have.
 R>> I expect one half of all routed netmail to get lost en
 R>> route (that's the nature of the beast), so if I have anything
 R>> really important to say, I make it a policy to send the netmail
 R>> direct/crash
 RM> I have never had to do that in the past.  Perhaps you are doing
 RM> something wrong with routing mail.
What the hell do -I- have to do with the routing?  If mail gets lost en 
route, what can I possibly do about it?  Do you really understand how the 
system works?  (Don't try to cite all your years in Fido as evidence of 
understanding, people can be clueless for years.  Also don't bother taking a 
poll of the echo participants about their opinions of your techincal 
expertise, it wouldn't sway me.)
 R>> What does voting have to do with it, Dick?
 RM> Well, you obviously are paying NO attention to what others here think
 RM> of my personality, I figured you would like to be enlightened to the
 RM> truth.
Who cares what other people think about your personality?
Well, you might, but I don't.  Why should I?
 RM>>> Why am I not surprised, that you would use this tactic?  ;)
 R>> Probably because you've gained some insight into my personality.
 RM>  You would not like the insight I have about your personality fully
 RM>  revealed.
Don't presume to make such statements about my preferences.
 R>> Why are you stating that last implication?  I can easily conceive
 R>> of banning you while not banning Andrew, without Universe
 R>> collapsing due to a failure of internal consistency
 RM> So, then it would be a more accurate conclusion that you would only
 RM> ban someone for hounding you and not for telling you to "fuck off", or
 RM> for insulting others on this echo, and having a REAL belligerent
 RM> attitude.
No, I am not interested in either banning Andrew for being an asshole, or 
banning you for the same disorder.  I don't know from whose rectum you pulled 
the idea that I wanted to ban you for this silly crap you've been posting in 
this echo, but I'm not having any of it.
 R>> I do not seem to grok this path you have been following --
 RM> Too bad.
 R>> it may have to do with my eristic
 R>> temperament and your apparent aneristic temperament
 RM> I really do not think that any assessment of my personality using
 RM> words coined by Heinlein is of any use.  Actually any assessment of my
 RM> personality by YOU has much potential for inaccuracy.
Heinlein coined the word "aneristic"?!?  That's news to me -- I knew he 
coined the term "grok", but I was using that word to describe my own state 
rather than my assessment of your personality.  Maybe you should learn to 
read more carefully.
Any assessment of any personality is subject to inaccuracy.  I take care to 
include words like "apparent" so that my statements are accurate.
 RM> Tell me, why are you even here (especially as moderator)?
(blah blah... much indignation trimmed.)
I was originally here to read and post to the echo.  When I got the echolist 
password, my goal was to keep the echo from disappearing.  Now I am here to 
keep the echo in the dominion of the Lords of Chaos.
If you don't like it, too bad.  Feel free to fuck off.  I am not here to 
please you or any other person.  If you would prefer an echo with stricter 
controls on content, you are free to vote with your feet and start a new echo 
with yourself as moderator.  You are also free to stay here, and you may even 
whine about the moderation (or lack thereof) as you have been doing.
However, your moaning and griping and pissing and bitching will not get 
either you or Andrew banned.  At most it will cause me to ignore you or 
respond with a nasty message such as this one.  If such activities entertain 
you, then you might as well continue, but if you're counting on accomplishing 
some goal other than provoking a nasty response, you might want to cut it 
t.
Have a nice day.
Rev_Null
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