----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:30 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ophee - his views
>> >> previously been an open forum, a censored one. >> > >> > But the forum is no less open and no more censored than it was before. >> > The only difference is that one more person is now on the list of those >> > excluded from posting. >> >> I don't understand, what kind of legal logic or lingo you refer to for >> saying this. >> To me, the only apt word for shutting someone out like this is >> censorship. >> >> >> May I ask, what in the world justifies letting Roman rant on with his >> >> interminable insults and obsessive, bellicose language when we can't >> >> stand >> >> Matanya's equally insulting postings? Why should there be a >> >> difference? >> > >> > I don't know that anything justifies some of Roman's more personal >> > jibes. But they are never libelous, >> >> Gee, Howard... do you really mean that? > DO you have evidence of me being libellous?????? It's a splitting of hairs. C.f. the word libelous in a good dictionary. I for one cannot distinguish any great difference in the insults that used to fly between yourself and Matanya. >> since they never purport to be >> > more than personal opinion. (Indeed, many of Roman's posts are >> > grounded in the notion that his opinions are valid solely because they >> > are his, so he never feels the need to substantiate them, or even >> > explain what he means.) >> >> And in what way does this make Matanya's postings any different? > Because MO had set out to assasinate Arthur's character by spreading lies > about Arthur. It was a libelous act. So let Arthur deal with it! What are you? His self-appointed guardian angel? B.R. G. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: 31/08/2005 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
