From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking News
--- In [email protected] <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I'm not saying the AMT folks haven't contributed a lot > - they have. But they brought old grudges and sloppy > posting habits with them which may have more than > counterbalanced their contributions. People needn't > unsubscribe, but if they can't voluntarily change old > habits, we're going to impose some control. I've > resisted this a long time because I'm not a control > freak, but I think a majority here (including many who > have left, discouraged, but would return if things > improve) support this. *I* support it. But I think you're going about it the wrong way, and I don't think you've correctly identified the real source of the problem. If you were to take aside (i.e., in private email) a few of the people who are most responsible for the gratuitous(*) attacks--and they're primarily attacks *on* TM supporters, not *by* TM supporters-- and tell them they had to stop it or they'd be banned, I'll bet you'd see a quite remarkable improvement in a very short time. Just as an experiment, you might want to look over Barry's "Things TMers Believe" quotes and read them in context. A very substantial number of them are responses to attacks by TM critics, primarily by Barry himself. If I were to post a compendium of quotes from Barry's posts attacking TMers, I wonder if you'd offer to archive it. Somehow I doubt it. There's a files section on FFL in which anyone can archive anything. There's also a links section in which you can link to any post. Maybe Barry is finished with that little exercise. I'll bet that anyone who read your post (the one I'm responding to here) thought, Oh God, she just doesn't get it. We're sick of hearing Judy's opinion of Barry and vice versa. We don't care how justified your self-defense is, just drop it already. Forget the guy exists. If he does the same with you, the forum will improve immensely.
