Laurie Appleton and insults

Wesley R. Elsberry (welsberr@inia.cls.org)
Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:14:14 -0600 (CST)

Stephen Jones wrote:

[...]

WE>To someone new to the forum, the regular roundhouse abuse that
>Laurie receives seems out of line with what he posts. To those
>who saw the original substantive replies go unheeded or scorned
>outright, the abuse does not seem so much out of line as it is
>ineffective.

SJ>Agreed. Abuse *is* "ineffective". Why don't you realise this and
SJ>either answer Laurie properly or ignore him? There may be are others
SJ>reading the exchanges (like me) who could benefit from evolutionists
SJ>calmly responding factually.

[...]

On the whole, I believe that "calm, factual responses" pretty
well characterizes my correspondence to Laurie Appleton. Stephen
is welcome to document any lapses, if he would care to claim otherwise.

Wesley