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Date:         Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:19:44 -0400
Reply-To:     "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Nostradamus apology
Comments: To: mike miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com>
In-Reply-To:  <B7C66120.104E%mwmiller@cwnet.com>
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At 01:12 PM 9/13/01 -0700, mike miller wrote: >Sorry, I have to disagree with my peach tree lawyer friend. It is not >better to 'pass along something'. All we learned from this is that it was a >hoax. > >Panics, depressions [sorry, recessions] personal slander, and really bad >jokes get going this way. There are circumstances in which a false warning >is better than none [look out! a grenade! qualifies] but this isn't one, and >most situations aren't, IMHO. > >Mike [Sacramento, not Fresno]

Your humble servant here was glad to see the EFFORT. Libel, fraud, and other ill-conceived but premediated malicious acts differ, in my opinion. The gentleman passed along something he believed in good faith to be perfectly applicable, and did so in a timely manner. He should be applauded. And in fact we learned that it was a hoax. (Did we? Was it?) If so, we learned much more than that. We learned to carefully examine all that is put before us.

horace (Ringgold, not Rome)


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