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|    ROBBIE to All    |
|    Re: Here's a laugh    |
|    30 Jan 06 11:34:26    |
   
   From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "P.S.Burton" wrote in message   
   news:1138620190.174308.150830@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > > > Perhaps you'd like to buy a copy of either book - or get one free as   
   an   
   > > > inter-library loan - and write a review.   
   > > >   
   > >   
   > > As usual you are firmly and petulantly clutching the wrong end of the   
   stick.   
   > > The reason I tittered at Allport The Omniscient's book about free speech   
   is   
   > > because he left this unmoderated group because he couldn't control it   
   and   
   > > founded a collaborative blog where he is rather too fond of censoring   
   for a   
   > > man who writes a book about free speech.   
   >   
   > That's one interpretation. Another is that he left this newsgroup   
   > because he found you a bothersome prick   
      
   He left at at time when I hardly posted. He objected to not being in   
   control.   
      
      
   . He then founded his own   
   > discussion forum, which you *followed* him to, whereupon he deleted   
   > your posts. That's no more censorship than is changing tables in the   
   > pub when you object to the company.   
      
   You and Martha *have* been having nice email talk...   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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