~>  Since I would have no reason to check the list before *RENEWING*
~>  my echos

Notice that he now falls back to weasel-wording.  He already said that he
CHECKS the list before sending in a listing.  That led him into a deadend.
 He is careful not to say that he DID NOT check the list, but to merely say
that he HAD NO REASON to do so.

A renewal is the easiest thing in the world.  You go to your
previously-sent e-mail to the echolist, and you send it again.  He did not
do that in November.  When he tried to ban two people, he suddenly realized
that he had never listed ALL-POLITICS and he tried to grab it.

His intent is all the more obvious when you look and see that he had
renewed "all politics" and "debate" just 27 days earlier.  Just those two!
 They were good for the next six months.  But on November 12 he suddenly
tried to list ALL-POLITICS for the first time, with no accompanying renewal
of "debate."  I had listed it more than TEN MONTHS earlier, and if he had
checked ANY ONE of those lists he would have KNOWN that fact.  Just a few
days ago he said he checks the list before trying to list an echo, and now
he has to backtrack so far as to pretend that he hadn't checked the list
for ten months!  He doesn't want to say that, though, so he weasels with
talk about whether or not he had a "reason" to do it.

 
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