Mark's message and a teensy booboo on the part of the moderator

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 1982
Date: 2000-04-01

Mark grumbles:
>Piotr plays by the rules. So do I. When Piotr legitimately says >'gotcha',
>he's got me. You are trying to play by your rules, Glen. >And worse, you
>think you are the only owner of a ball. Didn't RMA >kick you off the other
>lists for insisting your ball was the only >ball available?

Is that a halo around your head? May I walk in your footsteps, oh saviour.

"You" this, "you" that... blah, blah, blah... but no "IE" anything. I
distinctly remember that this list was to be moderated to prevent non-IE
topics, especially harmful ones like this, from showing up on the list. If I
see another message that contains nothing but snide remarks directed to me
once more, I will take myself of this list just as swiftly as I took myself
off the Nostratic List for the same reason.

Now, I admit to being a bad boy and saying some nasty things but it's always
in connection to IE studies. But... using this list only as a medium to
spread hearsay about another list member was never part of the "rules",
Mark. I've made some bad remarks but I've never gone to this extent.

Gotcha?

Secondly, my ideas have changed drastically over the past couple of years. I
finally fully accept the laryngeal theory to the shock of the other list
members on the Nostratic List, for instance, and I now realise how silly my
idea was - but I'm still very proud that I had the courage to have one and
more importantly to have had the ability to radically and publicly alter it
without irrational pride. So your comments are without merit, without
purpose and without truth.

As for the dialogue between Piotr and I, there may be some things that I
will soon agree with him on and I do respect his input (and certainly his
patience with me). So why don't you stop putting other people down and have
faith?

- gLeN


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