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Administrator:

You said, in the thread you just closed (I dislike the changes..." (post #256288):


I neither said nor implied any such thing, and I would ask that you retract this statement at once and issue an immediate public apology.

If you need the actual posts to refresh your memory, I will be happy to produce them.

For the sake of Christ, forgive me, but you've got some nerve. This may be your sandbox, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let you toss the sand in my face like that.

Kenneth Alexo, Jr. (Theophilos)

Dear Theophilos,

Thanks for your post. Your earlier post was one of about 9 posts (by several different posters) in the other thread that were deleted because they were uncharitable. As I posted earlier, it very much seemed to indicate that you believed that all those who oppose the RDL were nasty. That in no way means that you believe such a thing or intended to convey such a complaint. It does mean that such a conclusion was a logical one based upon your actual words. I understand that you will disagree with me on this, and that is OK. But I do think that if you presented a friend of yours with a collection of some of your posts on this forum over the past year for an independent review he would agree with my conclusion.

I will note only that you did not use the term �nasty�. But most readers would conclude that such was the tenor of what you wrote. Readers are certainly free to read your previous posts. And they are certainly encouraged to communicate their conclusions to me for consideration.

If you wish to complain that we are not perfect in our moderation I will totally agree with you. But we do try our best to be fair to all sides. And I will once again note that this Forum has given those who support the RDL a reading audience that is hugely larger than that in the official Ruthenian publications.

John