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Speaking for myself, I would generally err on the side of respecting someone's confidence, but would regard myself under no obligation to do so if the email were abusive, threatening, insulting, or otherwise objectionable.

Ive' been out of town all weekend and am just catching up, so pardon if I don't know everything that's happened.

I got a freepmail way back before all the thread dropping started. It was very obvious that the sender had an agenda, and that was to disrupt these threads.

Now, in the last month or so I've had a number of discussions with Alamo, both public and private. I have had to reconsider the effect of phrases like "blue spew". I am genuinely happy that such phrases are explicitly considered unacceptable.

But there is a particular style of argument that encouraged such insults, and that style involves making accusations not so much against Freepers ans against the whole scientific community. It is one thing to argue that conventional ideas are wrong; quite another to insist that the whole community is withholding data, lying about data which is within anybody's means to check. I would suggest that when you take on the entire scientific establishment, you need to be cautious about how you phrase your arguments -- if you expect to be taken seriously.

Welcome back, js1138! Thank you so much for the heads up to your post!

Your point is well made. Railing accusations from either side are flame invitations. If you don't mind, would you kindly add that recommendation to the Agreement thread so we'll all remember it when the agreement comes up for review in a few weeks?

I have found this whole conversation and thread absolutely priceless.

The beginning, we get someone who uses the same old arguments, AGAIN, we provide informations which of course he ignores, then ALS goes Bye, Bye, lord knows how or why, but we can imagine, then Ichneumon comes in, makes some brilliant posts and the poster he was responding to comes back at me intead with something ridiculous that had been answered in the posts by Ichneumon, which he of course totally ignored, because he really does NOT want to know.

AndrewC gets a major case of hypersensitivity, and G3K whines throughout the thread. The PH hits him hard and he keeps whining and crying and tossing unfounded accusations around, then PH hits him again, and he keeps doing it until he gets to a point where he is placed in the troll category all on his own.

Man, this has been quite a ride, I hope RA and VR have saved this thing forever. We need to frame it!! LOL

It's amazing, and priceless