Ward Dossche wrote to Robert Bashe on Monday May 31 2004 at 13:06:

WD>>> Fidonet an emotional thing? I do not understand that ...

RB>> How else should one understand your near-hysterical reactions to Roy
RB>> Witt's messages and the reactions to your PC ruling in Z1?

WD> Care to quote me saying something histerical about Roy Witt?

Your posting of his "Nazi salute" message with the full ASCII art
in both ZCC and enet.sysop, with your subsequent urgency in ZCC trying to
get the others to agree on a worldwide policy to crack down on
"undesirable" content, spoke volumes. As did your total distain
for Malcolm's attitude that such matters depend on national and regional
sensibilities and thus are best dealt with on a regional basis.

Going back even further, I can easily remember your run-ins with Roy when
he was still moderator of FN_SYSOP. Trying to deny all that only reduces
your credibility with people who are aware of the facts.

RB>> Ever hear the saying that those who do not learn from the past are
RB>> doomed to re-live it?

WD> So it is OK for you but not for me...

You appear to ignore the lessons of 1993-1995 in R24, and to concentrate
exclusively on what you see as Janis' vendetta against you. She in turn
concentrates on what she sees as your desire to dominate what's left of
fido completely - a fear you have certainly done nothing to dispel in past
weeks.

RB>> But you know, I'm starting to realize that neither you nor the others
RB>> are really interested in a compromise.

WD> I'm waiting for anyone making a reasonable proposal. That should start
WD> with the removal of 3:3/1000 from the nodelist.

Nothing more? How about a golden crown?

Do you even know what a "compromise" is anymore? It's where
_everybody_ gives up something, not just one side. And in this case
"everybody" includes _you_.

WD> After that I'm available for debate as you will see in crossposted
WD> ZCC-messages ... if such debate is initiated by my fellow ZCs of
WD> course.

Naturally the "sinners" have to come to you, hat in hand and with
bowed heads. Jeez, Ward, what are you smoking nowadays?

RB>> Snotty, supercilious messages like yours here are the order of the
RB>> day. And my belief that our fido ZCs might be  something more than
RB>> squabbling children is fast disappearing.

WD> As the saying goes "He who sows wind will harvest storm".
I didn't sow
WD> anything... someone else did.

"Mommie, mommie, he hit me!"

Cheers, Bob

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