<HTML>Greg Reeder wrote:
> I enjoy reading both MB's and even what remains of the third
> one. I also like the interplay of personalities and just the
> general sense of amazement I feel over what many will accept
> and even say publicly.
Hello Greg,
I have no wish what_so_ever to get involved in a personal dispute between Anthony and Avery. Life is complicated enough without trying to untangle this particulr web and my post is aimed at the phenomenon of the Internet in general and not at any case or person in particular. I am less amazed by the readiness of people to accept, and make, statements without any factual backup, as I am by the fact that they are prepared to do it over such a ephemeral medium as Internet. Here you can be whoever or whatever you want to be and say whatever comes to your mind no matter how derranged it might be, as you said :"All that's fair game". Here you do not have to provide proof to your suppositions or face the radicule of your peers, on the net if things get too hot, you can always puch out, change the address and come back as somebody else. It is NOT real life, it is the illusion and consequences of your actions aren't (and shouldn't be) the same as in life. And yet there is still an astonishing number of people prepared to treat the net on the same level as if it was a real life and that really makes me wonder how "sapiens" we "homo" trurly are.
Regards D.P.</HTML>