> 3) Even within the recent flames, there seems to be a historical subtext that
> is keeping them fanned.
> The latest really seemed to start innocently enough with a reasonable question
> about the legality of
> posting scans of a manuscript you buy and a non-inflammatory answer from the
> publisher in question
> explaining the legal and moral reasons not to. The issue was ready to be
> retired at that point but
> others joined in. I have briefly looked at the archives (they are HUGE) and
> did not find the seed
> that started the conflict between RT and MO (amongst others), but unless this
> history includes war
> crimes and pedophilia, the language is uncalled for (although having lived in
> the city of MO's birth,
> I realize that even if a Sabra is trying to be polite, it might not come
> across that way <g>).
It pretty much started with the appearance of Daniel Franke (aka
DFerengizade), a europhobic mortonfeldmanist (figure that one out). I
disagreed to some of his tendentious ideas, so did MO.
Then MO proceeded to insult Sephardim, and I took an exception to that (I
rather liked the guy previously).
The "truce" more or less lasted until Doug Smith's "campaign" against
Sautscheck.
The funny thing is that old postings in those flame wars are nowhere as
interesting as they seemed at the time..........
RT
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