personal invective

["Fiona Webster" <fi>]

I wrote:
> Thanks to j.BOLt for putting up a more complete version of the
> Rocktropolis transcript!  Here are some questions (I labeled them
> with Q:) that I remember, to fill in some of the blanks...

Ed replied: 
> No. He, unlike you, added nothing of relevance. Did you notice Mr. Bolt,
> that Patti didn't read Legs book on punk - just like I said - you shmuck.

All right.  That goes over the line for me.  I am now going on 
record, as one individual lowly member of the babel-list (darn 
right!), as saying that no one has the right to call anyone else on 
this list a schmuck.  Especially not in public.

I'm serious.  I recognize the value of having, as we do in Michael 
Berch, a very tolerant and laissez-faire listowner, but personal 
invective of this nature is too much.  

		--pissed,

			Fiona 


      "If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much 
       pleasure in noticing those in others."
                            --La Rochefoucauld, 1768