From: detritus@ix.netcom.com   
      
   hugeshows wrote:   
      
   > Stephie,   
   >   
   > I'm deeply sorry that you had to see this mess of a thread, and I apologize   
   for even starting it.  Of course, I would have never found you had I not   
   posted here and asked about you.  I think in retrospect that offering to share   
   this project here may    
   have been a mistake, as I certainly have no desire to expose our hard work to   
   a certain handful of liars and trolls.  I really should have gone about   
   offering up the project for discussion in a different way, and regrettably, in   
   a different forum.  I had    
   foolheartedly thought that there were still people here who collaboratively   
   worked on projects, and back in the old days a project of your design would   
   have been widely received here.   
   >   
   > I'm nostalgic for the old R.A.T., where I first met you over 15 years ago.    
   Where I met Uncle Ned, Jim McShane, and all the wonderfully friendly and   
   helpful denizens that used to frequent this place.  If it hadn't been for RAT,   
   and the people on it, I    
   would have never been able to do even a fraction of the things I have done   
   with tube amps.   
   >   
   > I am going to try to turn a corner here, and a few weeks ago decided that   
   I'm only going to post useful threads, and I'm going to stop unprovoked poking   
   of my fingers into the eyes of notorious trolls.  It would appear that you   
   were the recipient of    
   some blowback that was intended for me, and I am a both sad and sorry about   
   that.   
   >   
   > Thanks for being such a good sport, and staying so classy.  You've always   
   been above the fray here, and along with your incredible technical chops,   
   that's been one of the things I most admire about you.  I wish I had anything   
   approaching your    
   discipline on either of those areas.   
   >   
   > For the record, I'm truly sorry that my clumsy re-entry to RAT caused such   
   mean-spirited and ignorant things to be said about you.  I'd been hoping it   
   had escaped your notice which is why I had not mentioned this thread in our   
   correspondence or issued    
   an overdue apology.  I was simply hoping that those mean comments had missed   
   you.   
   >   
   > Regards,   
   >   
   > you_know_who   
      
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