Subj : ERRORS in Route List! To : Darrell Salter From : Jack Yates Date : Sat May 12 2001 04:49 pm JY>> Yeah, but we all straightened that mess out, Ross; why dredge it JY>> up again? DS> He was incited to perform hate mongering? If I were the moderator of this echo, I would toss me out for what I'm about to write. Somewhere, somehow, you, Darrell, latched on to the idea that everybody in Region 18 hates everyone in Region 12. How or why is unclear to me because I don't think that there's any "hate" involved. "Hate", in my mind, is a very strong emotion, one that I'm incapable of. I don't hate anyone. Speaking for myself, I don't hate, despise, loathe or Region 12 as a whole. I may from time to time feel that various individuals in that region are a brick or two short of a hodful, or are overbearing, or obnoxious, or otherwise a pain in the ass but I don't hate them. I'm not going to speak for anyone else in R18 but it would appear that the invective that comes from this region and that you wish to blanket your region with, is directed to a few select, vocal individuals, including yourself. This dialogue comes from a few select individuals in Region 18, including me, but because the individuals *are* in Region 18 you feel that the whole region is against you. I question that you speak for the SysOps in all of Region 12 now, just as I questioned that you spoke for all of the Sysops in R12 when you were R12C. But, I don't care, and I don't care how you do things north of Lake Ontario. If you want to go through the rest of your Fido career with a persecution complex, please do, knock yerself out; but it does the network no good at all for you to spread your version of hate among so many others on *both* sides of the above-mentioned lake who may not feel that emotion until you introduce it to them by repeated accusation, ad nauseum. Repitition begets belief, I suppose and that may be what you're trying to achieve. If you can't stand the controversy, stop being controversial; if you don't want to fight, stop carrying a broken pool cue to these meetings where we seem to run into one another, and *don't* continue to stick your hand into the tiger's cage. Nonetheless, I am damn sick and tired of a few SysOps spreading the belief that because I am in R18, I, personally, surely must hate everyone in R12. Hate takes time and energy and I don't have enough of either to invest in such a petty, useless endeavor. --- * Origin: (1:3613/1275) .