Re: A note from your friendly neighborhood Devil's Advocate

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

You don't have any idea, do you?

Jevan

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Michael Kilgore wrote:

> To back Lyle on one of his assertions (which one, I will not say), I know
> for a fact that Mike Brobst does show up is because of the crap that was
> going on.  BTW, it is the same crap as to why Melissa and myself left
> Centralia and never looked back.
> 
> The last time I remember him showing up for a game was a couple weeks after
> he showed up to do something that is a hotly debated topic of past weeks.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyle H Janney <lhjanney@adpc.purdue.edu>
> To: gmlist@cioe.com <gmlist@cioe.com>
> Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 7:36 AM
> Subject: RE: A note from your friendly neighborhood Devil's Advocate
> 
> 
> >Very well, Mr. Independent Counsel, but do I have your word that, upon
> >presentation of evidence, you will publicly apologize for the slander you
> >have done me?  I have personally accused no individual with my recent
> >assertions (just as I never accused nor intended to imply cheating on
> >Kris' part a couple weeks ago).  I am not a source of "constant beligerance
> >and condemnation", nor do I "constantly critisize just for the sake of
> >disagreemant" (btw, please update your spell checker or buy a dictionary).
> >Your desire to support your argument with such direct accusations only
> >shows _your_ ability to resort to belligerence and condemnation.
> >
> >Yes, you have written on the dwindling newbie population, and it is, as
> >you say "absolutely a source of the thinning of the club".  However, I am
> >asserting that it is not the only source.  You disagree.  That is fine, but
> it
> >gives you no right to resort to the kind of accusations you make below.
> >
> >I will attempt to petition those on my list in order to substantiate my
> claims.
> >This may take some time, which I am short on of late, and many of the
> >people on my list just simply no longer show up so they will be harder to
> >reach, so don't expect this anytime real soon.  Until then, I challenge you
> >to keep any ear open to the complaints of others if you truly care so much
> >about the membership of the club.  I may not be _entirely_ correct in the
> >reason our older members are dwindling, but I know I am not entirely
> >incorrect.
> >
> >Lyle
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jevan Furmanski [SMTP:furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu]
> >
> >I have already written on the dwindling population of newbies.  This is
> >absolutely a source of the thinning of the club.  Your claims have no
> >substantiation without revealing credible sources.  I am starting to get
> >angered now by your constant beligerance and condemnation.  We can point
> >fingers and accuse, and that is exactly how people get wrong ideas about
> >players and characters (watches of time stop, swords of all the Tor
> >drills).  We do not need a negative voice in the club to constantly
> >critisize just for the sake of disagreemant.  You are going to have to be
> >a little more credible about your accusations or I am no longer going to
> >entertain discourse that is just endless bickering.
> >
> >Jevan
> >
> 
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