On 11/22/2013 11:15 AM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Given that two of these are mine, I wonder how many others have been
miscredited in your zeal to tickle dxAce.

On 11/23/13 09:11 , Joe from Kokomo wrote:

So what's yer point? Two wrong (or a dozen) out of a few hundred ain't
too bad IMHO. Ignoring your two and possibly a few others, the great
preponderance of quotes (the other 99% that ARE correct) seems to paint
a pretty accurate picture of lare's "character".

On 11/23/2013 1:28 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Read carefully, I said that TWO are mine. How many others are there?
I certainly can't be the only one.

Which suggests that we're no longer discussing 99%.

Your opinion that a few, or a dozen, is yours to hold and cherish.
But if mII's accuracy is off by a few, or a dozen, then he's sloppy. And
his reportage is dismissable on its face. Because he doesn't care to
verify, verify, verify.

He may be "sloppy", but on the other hand, he is not a professional
reporter. And frankly, there is a VERY large body of rude posts
attributable to lare. You are tap dancing and nit-picking if you ignore
the vast bulk of those posts with no socially redeeming value.

If one is going to quote someone, with the intent of smearing him,
one is obligated to tell the truth. Not just a percentage.

First, I don't think he was "smearing" him. He was just quoting lare's
OWN POSTS. If anyone was smearing lare, it was lare.

I don't necessarily want to debate percentages with you; that is not the
point.

To me, the point is that most of us have been around here long enough
and read enough of lare's posts to know that the rudeness, crudeness and
racial pot shots are indeed a large portion ('percentages'
notwithstanding) of lare's stock-in-trade. Not to quibble that there may
be one or two or a few misquotes, there are many, many quotes that are
indeed true and have indeed come from lare's keyboard.

He can be crude. He can be opinionated. So what?

So what?

I can admire your support of unpopular viewpoints; however, I cannot
understand your defense of crudeness, vulgarity and racism.

Go back and do some reading. I've put a lot of content on this
newsgroup. And along the way, I've stood up for many, here, whose
politics I've disagreed with. And I've done it simply because they were
under assault by someone with faulty claims.

Again, support of "divergent politics, sharing tech tips and sharing
extraordinary experiences", is fine. But I (and many others here) DO
have a problem with support of crudeness, vulgarity and racism.

Please feel free to have the last word, but let me leave you with these
two thoughts:

1) Don't get hung up on percentages. There were still HUNDREDS of vulgar
posts with no redeeming social value directly attributable to lare that
we are complaining about, not the unun or DX posts.

2) Please try not to confuse discussion of divergent political views,
tech tips and sharing 'extraordinary' experiences with crudeness,
vulgarity and racism. There IS a difference.