Trojan Horse. One point worth noting is that your exchange in the CO thread that Randy closed, and the present one in the 'obese persons' one on The Buzz leaves no possibility for either you, nor the other protagonist/s to (a) contact each other or (b) be contacted by other members of FT to possibly assist you to finalise the argument.

Why? Because in both cases you AND the other poster do not have an email address showing. Without digging up the 400 old threads about whether SOME kind of email address might be mandatory here (I feel strongly they should) the fact remains, had you and your other differing posters had an email address, things may have cooled off before this. Why not consider getting a free email address to use just for FT? I must have sent and received well over 1,000 emails with other FT'ers off board, and often things can be settled via this method, as sensible advice really is abundant.

Randy's note seems very sensible and civilised to me. But right now he is the ONLY one to have access to your real email, so it should not need to come down to he or his staff sorting it, but you gave them no option. Vigorous on board discussions are not new on FT (I am the living proof of that!) but the language a number of you kept resorting too was not called for. As cigarman illustrated on the CO thread, the same effect can be achieved without bar room language. Now I discover he is 6'5" and xxx pounds, I am not going to argue with him again, but ply him with Cohibas instead.

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~ Glen ~



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