At any rate, the transcript of the show in question was posted, and it is easy to see how a large misunderstanding occurred. If people on all sides had waited for the transcript, perhaps a lot of insults and hard feelings and a freeper being banned could have been avoided.
I am sorry to see this whole episode, as it all could have been avoided.
I appreciate you telling me this, M. M.. I went through about 250 posts early this morning, but had to stop reading before seeing the actual transcript. I'm sorry I didn't see it.
One thing that really makes me crazy is a false accusation. God knows, I have had a little bit of that here from one particular poster.
I hope that if "bayourant" was at all accurate with his claim, I hope that he is reinstated. I still haven't seen the actual transcript. I wonder if you could point me to the post where it may be.
Again, thank you very much for your post. If I jumped to incorrect conclusions, it is mostly because of my very high esteem for F. Lee Levin. I just didn't and don't think he said such a thing.
But, there never really is any real excuse to falsely claim something about someone that is not true.
Thanks again.
What seems to have happened is that is precisely what bayourant wants us to think. But I have read previous exchanges between holdonnow (Mark) and bayourant and if bayourant didn't know it was Mark himself, then he is indeed a "dummie", or doesn't both to read entire threads.
I'll wager in most of those threads where bayourant stalked Mark, other FReepers outright addressed "holdonnow" as "Mark"..
Bayourant's style is to demonize people who don't agree with him, as "racists", on the ports deal and Illegal Immigration threads.
It was nauseous and ugly. He needed to be stopped.
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