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Umm, no, they could have banned him.

A truer word was n'ver said.

PW does remind me of some Wild West town. Or Salem maybe?

Ken, it has been my policy for over 25 years that if I receive an improper email (or other personal correspondence) in relation to some issue on an associated newsgroup, that email and the author gets publicly exposed by me.

Improper emails are things such as name calling and threats. Yours fell in the last category.

If you want more information you can google me on the subject, I think there are some old threads on the "holy sanctity of the privateness of email" online from decades ago.

Really I'm not trying to upset you Ken, I wish you would try to learn from you experience instead of being so defensive all the time.


Kees

Point one:




Perhaps you could explain what else it means? You could be saying Bill is stupid...or you might be saying Ken is stupid. Which is it?

Point two:

Who's being defensive here? Methinks this post quite well explains what you meant in the above post about stupidity knowing no bounds:



Yeah, classy.

Horowitz, I already answered the question you ask me. Please read.

You are derailing the thread, the thread is not about me.

Kees

Unintentional irony. Gotta love it.

Oh I see, only an ironic derail. Does that count?

No, he's not derailing the thread at all. He's simply commenting on material that already exists in the thread (put there by you no less). You're right that the thread isn't about you, but if that's your criteria for pinning an accusation of derailment on Horo, then YOU were guilty of the exact same offense back on the very first page of the thread when you posted YOUR private message/replies.

That's too complicated for me to understand. Should I get a lawyer? If you cross the street while the pedestrian light is red to save a child from a falling piano do you still get a ticket if it was tuned in EBVT?

Come on guys, everything relevant has by now been said here.

Kees

I don't know all the facts, and won't pretend too. What I am reading is that it was Bill's sarcasm and attitude towards another member which temporarily suspended him from the forums, which he apparently agreed to. Maybe he realizes a mistake was made.

Let it be known that I do not spend a great deal of time on the forums. I find many threads where sarcasm and bantar are present, and that is to be expected within a public forum such as these. Much of this sarcasm comes to the point of insult.

With that said, we obviously don't see members being suspended or banned on a daily basis. Whatever the details of this suspension are, let us put it behind us, respect the decision of Mr. Baxter and the forum Moderators, and move on.

Opinions are passionate ideas coming from the mind and heart. When an opposing idea/opinion is presented, its likely to conjur up some degree of anger. To be professional is to hold the anger back and respect the opinions of others.

Its easy to "type away" via email or a forum such as these without regret. . .especially knowing you may never come in contact with the opposition, EVER. What takes professionalism is to give the due respect even if it is not given to you. Walk away if you get angry. . .tomorrow is a new day!

Cheers!

Well-said, Mr. Stahl.

Onward, ladies and gentlemen of the PTT forum. I don't often post here, but I do follow along. Onward.

I was permanently banned with no warning from another forum for saying (in one of my first four posts there)that I thought Idil Biret was a terrific pianist.

I find your comment distressing. Ms Thomas's reputation was ruined by her own viciously anti-semitic remark.

If Helen Thomas posted on PW the same way she askes questions she wouldn't get past post #2 before being banned.

I think it is time to give this thread a rest, let get back to talking about pianos instead of fighting, etc...

Agreed.

LOL. Didn't mean to confuse you. I thought it a fairly simple response myself. =)

Distress no more! Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. In fact plenty of orthodox Israelis are the former.

Indeed. Rabbi Nesenhoff, the self-proclaimed Zionist who used his teenage son to ambush an elderly lady, has claimed that he views Israel and Judaism as the same thing and that those who do not provide unconditional support for every action of Israel are thus anti-Semites. Since Helen Thomas, one of the few journalists America has known that has protected democracy by asking difficult questions, including how it is in the interest of the US to unconditionally support and bankroll Israel, Pakistan and other countries she was fair game to be preyed upon, ambushed and even have her employer called by Nesenhoff demanding her firing while he orchestrated an internet-soundbite-fueled mob lynching without giving the poor woman a chance to react. Civilization? Rule of law? I think not.

Hopefully, pianoworld will not sink to this level, but people who act like Nesenhoff will be suspended.