MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MR> "Roy J. Tellason" wrote to "MICHEL SAMSON" (24
Jun 03  12:06:30) 
 MR> --- on the topic of "MYSTERY SPORTSTER..."

 RJT>  I do object to people who attack
 RJT> other _individuals_.  Please don't do that,  ok?
 RJT> Roy J. Tellason
 RJT> ELECTRONICS Echo Moderator

 MR> I think it is a simple conflict of personalities.

We've all been there at one point or another,  but the choice to express it
is another matter.

 MR> I've had mine as you well know and even we two a couple of times.

Yeah.

 MR> If you look on it as a normal part of things it isn't so bad. Like 
 MR> the kids in some families are always at each other but in the end 
 MR> they really root for one another. As long as it doesn't become a 
 MR> blood feud such as was the case in the past with for instance a 
 MR> really fabulous character Ian Moote and the very experienced 
 MR> gentleman Elvis Hargrove.

I've corresponded directly with both those folks,  though not that recently
for either of them.  Don't recall the dispute you're talking about,  but
knowing the style of the two gentlemen mentioned it must have been
something else.

 MR>  "Disagreement is actually necessary,
 MR>   or we'd all have to get in fights
 MR>   or something to amuse ourselves
 MR>   and create the requisite chaos."
 MR>                     -Tom Jennings

No question of that,  it's just that I hate to see things going in a
particular direction without a bit of a nudge to take them in some other
direction instead.  Letting it go might have been okay,  or it might have
led to things escalating,  and I'd rather avoid that if possible.

Somebody has screwy ideas?  By all means attack the idea.  But not the
person behind it,  that's the basis of all of my moderation,  such as it
is.

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