-----Original Message----- From: Gomi no Sensei [mailto:gomi at speakeasy.net] Sent: 23 June 2003 18:24 To: Philip Hart Cc: Dragaera Mailing List Subject: Re: How does someone get a link to the Orb > > It is difficult for me to see how off-handedly referring to the > > outcome of the 2000 election as a 'coup' can result in anything > > other than a long and tedious flamewar, accompanied by an inevitable > > and simultaneous coarsening and lowering of the standards of > > discourse hereabouts, and must therefore ask you nicely to refrain. <Snip> >...... It seems to me that it would ill-serve the list's stated >purpose, however. Gomi, Agreed......Unless everybody who flames writes in Paarfi/Dumas style. Not of course that one seeks to suggest, although one could understand if this was understood by the comment, that Paarfi has copied the style of Dumas. Let the flame wars begin :-) Mark