BA> Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Stan Hardegree:

 SH>>> Have you ever noticed that Otto lies about virtually every
 SH>>> aspect of his and other's lives and not one of the Klhans,
 SH>>> Chirnsides, Sakowskis, Ackelys, ever says a thing about it?

 BK>>  How would we know, and why would we care Helm lies constantly,
 BK>>  viscious and sick lies, and you never even contradict him. He's
 BK>>  been doing it before I knew who Ross was.

 BA> In my case I pretty much ignore other peoples'
 BA> personal/medical problems; they're not *my* problems and I
 BA> have enough of those as it is.  So I generally don't
 BA> comment on them, in fact I usually skip over posts
 BA> containing such material.

 Which is a perfectly reasonable way to handle it, if you aren't
 intending to start a fight. I often just glance over such and
 pass on. Typically I don't address it much unless there is
 something else in there of interest. Then I edit it down to the
 part of interest.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... That's fine in practice, but it'll never work in theory.
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