From: davidc@wa-wd.com   
      
   On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 02:56:53 -0000 (UTC),   
   INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid (J.D. Baldwin) wrote:   
      
   >He was a pretty cheerful guy and I gathered he would be pleasant   
   >company.  He was absolutely loathed by a few a.o. regulars (I don't   
   >recall details) and the feeling was sometimes mutual.  But it struck   
   >me that if he was convinced of the truth of someone's position in an   
   >argument, he would readily concede it, even to someone he clearly   
   >hated.   
      
   I'm sorry to hear this. Thank you for letting us know.   
      
   He could be unpleasant and even mean, but he could also be friendly   
   and cool. He voiced his political opinions freely and didn't mind   
   picking fights, but at the same time, like J.D. said, he was   
   reasonable about it. Above all, he posted obituaries to the group, and   
   made factual additions to the obituaries posted by others. That alone   
   excuses a number of other sins.   
      
   Let us not forget that he rarely wrote more than one or two sentences   
   at a time. I remember another poster flaming someone here who will   
   remain nameless, "You're like Erik Lander, without his one virtue:   
   brevity."   
      
   >After I moved to the Big City (where he lived all his life and, I   
   >think, never really traveled far from), he and I exchanged a few   
   >tentative ideas about meeting up but none ever came to anything.   
      
   That's often the way it goes.   
      
   David Carson   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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