Firstly, I want to announce my pride in being the subject of the only thread started by the hoaxter which was allowed to remain up. Take THAT, Oz and Punki!

Now, to be even more perverse, I am going to disagree with Analise (who defended me) and agree with ChaseTheMiles (who despises me).

Analise, I just happen to live in a land which has a lot of meaning to people of all religions. What I did at Christmas time would have been the subject of a polite "thank you" and nothing more if I had done something similar in Detroit or Philadelphia.

ChaseTheMiles is 100% correct in saying I (figuratively) attacked her. In fact, I said so in this very thread long before she came on here.

I did so once, offer absolutely no apologies for it, feel that I was correct in doing so and would do so again if the same circumstances arose. They have not arisen since and thus I have not repeated.

For all this, she claimed (see above in this thread) that I "cyber stalked" her by doing an Omni search on her past postings vis-a-vis Israel.

Yes, I did the search -- and said so when I did it. Does this amount to cyber stalking? Only in her rather active imagination.

Having very little interest in stalking CTM (or doing anything else with her for that matter) I have basically put her out of my mind -- except when she comes on ORP to complain about me.

But my feelings about CTM (and obviously her feelings about me) are based on things we posted under our own names. They are not the result of falling for tricks by anonymous hoaxters out to cause hard feelings in the FT community.

I am not the real target of ftomnibox. OzStamps, Punki, the mods, etc are not the real target of TalkTeam.

The real target is FT in general and if you let anything they (actually, in my opinion, "he" -- a single hoaxter) posted influence you against any other FT member you will be giving him exactly what he wants.