Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:13:57 11/08/98
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On November 08, 1998 at 14:40:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >here's my take on this whole mess. Chris *did* exit on his own. He asked >for his password to be removed. We (the group of founders) had a bunch of >discussions about this but chose to not take that action. A while later, >Chris rewrote (or tried to rewrite) history claiming it was "us" that kicked >Rolf out. When he started the insistent request. Several became angry about >this and at that point, told Steve to remove his password. > >So Bruce is both right *and* wrong here. In the sense that Chris did choose >to leave... but when someone chooses to leave they can always come back if >they want... Later Chris's password was removed, and for truly personal >reasons, and I was right in the middle of the discussion as everyone knows. >I thought he behaved badly about the remarks he made in r.g.c.c, and I reacted >as did the others and said "enough!"... but as Bruce said, it was *clearly* >personal, because he certainly wasn't posting in CCC at the time... This is the situation as I understand it, too. >It was a bad decision. Just like this nonsense about getting upset at a >moderator here for what he says over "there". And his remark in r.g.c.c >was a long way from "a violent personal attack"... just "this is bullshit." There were two posts. You are thinking of the one I wrote directly to Enrique, but there was another one where I responded to Chris, in his "Spitting Puff Adder" thread, which is the one that has caused problems. >he has a point. As did we when we chose to delete Chris's password. As in >the original Rolf case. Right decision. Wrong reason. And perhaps not >total honesty after it was done as to "why/how" it was done... I'm not going to go here again. :-) bruce >The above reflects my recollection of events... others may disagree of >course...
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