On Nov 9, 6:01 pm, "Nicole Massey"  wrote:
> ---
> I also think that embarassing Joe from something Claudia said wouldn't be
> enough reason to reject an email. (Especially with some of the CYA
> retconning Claudia has done in the past to remove her responsibility from
> some issues)

I don't recall it being all that terrible though. The Blastr article
highlighted a number of different things that she covers in her book
based on the summary she handed out at Comic Con, but only part of the
article focused on a date she had with Joe which made her feel
awkward. It was a little amusing, but even if he did ask her out and
she felt funny about it, what's the big deal? She's an attractive
woman, especially back then when she was in her thirties, and what guy
would blame Joe for wanting to go out on a date with her, even if it
turned out that she wasn't interested him in that way? At least he
gave it a shot, which is more than can be said about a lot of people
who don't have such guts and then live to regret it because they find
themselves wondering later, sometimes years after the fact, how things
might have turned out otherwise if only they had taken a chance,
opened their mouth and made a play for someone they found appealing.
And obviously that's an issue that can apply to both men and women.

> Any gruge or bad feelings you hold isn't going to keep those you're holding
> them against miss one nanosecond of sleep.

I'm well aware of that, and believe me, I don't lose any sleep over it
either. It doesn't mean I'm going to simply forget about it though,
especially not here.

> You are a different matter. As
> has been said here, they're letting you keep this up -- any one of the
> moderators could hand moderate you or tell us to knock it off and shut down
> the thread. They aren't. This should tell you something about the integrity
> of he people for whom you're holding on to something that started long ago.

Except that I don't see why it should automatically be attributed to
'integrity' necessarily rather than something else, especially when I
found myself censored for some of the most ridiculous reasons in years
past by contrast. That was well before the standards became far more
'relaxed' than has been the case in more recent years.

And besides, one of the moderators just stated that he hasn't bothered
to censor me because he regards me as little more than a nuisance not
worth the bother (paraphrased of course).

> This is my option for B5 related stuff -- I dont' use Facebook both because
> it has blind accessibility problems and because I got tired of BBS's when I
> shut mine down in 1997.

I don't believe in Facebook --they collect too much personal
information, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's a whole
host of other reasons that I don't care for them and how they go about
things organizationally, so I wouldn't bother to frequent there
either.

> And that makes me wonder -- if you're not here to
> talk about the show, just why are you here then?

I'll post articles here periodically, as well as elsewhere, and when I
do they're always pertinent to the show in some way, and it really
doesn't thrill me when they simply don't show up, especially when it's
related to tragic news, such as the passing of a prominent cast
member. And that didn't just happen with respect to the tragic passing
of Michael O'Hare more recently, it also happened with Jeff Conaway
last year. People are free to discuss those things as they may see
fit, or not, depending on how they feel, but I take death notices
especially seriously, particularly in a place like this. It has
nothing to do with how I may happen to feel about the members who
frequent this newsgroup one way or the other --It's about
acknowledging and perhaps even honoring the dead. However, in this
particular case the thread topic that didn't show up related to
Claudia's book, and if one of the moderator's did decide to kill it
because they felt it would be embarrassing to Joe, which is somewhat
ridiculous given that it was an article posted on Blastr, where it
would be seen and read by many more people anyway, then they certainly
could have let me know here in this thread why they chose not to let
it go through if that was indeed the case. Anything else that has
stemmed from that has just been me taking it as it comes, and that's
all otherwise.

I hope you're pleased with the results of your interrogation.
--- SBBSecho 2.20-Win32