> While I was visiting their server, I noticed yet another discussion about 
> the latest attempts to revive the club. Those posts make me feel a certain 
> kind of embarrassment that's also hard to describe....

Really? You are embarrassed about a club and its members for which you 
couldn't care less in years? That's truly hard to believe...


(Later on that newsletter was actually involved in one of the
> club's most unpleasant implosions, but I'm sure these two chaps don't want 
> to have that embarrassing story rehashed in public. I'm almost in a foul 
> enough pre-funereal mood to leak it, but...)


OK, go ahead and have a leak...
Yea, that was the Iranian guy who published his non-approved version after a 
sudden disagreement with everybody else in the club. I now believe that he 
must have passed on this rare strain of rabies!


Doing my bit and a little bit more doesn't
> bother me, but... Later on I was asked to offer more assistance, and I 
> politely declined. Actually, I received several such requests just in the 
> last year...


This time you are not exaggerating at all! It has happened to a couple of 
people who have become "database ghosts" after they dropped out, relocated 
to another country and such. I can't imagine that any of those who remember 
you have attempted a personal approach and want you back!


> However, that's not what annoyed me. The part that annoyed me relates to 
> my response--which was edited on their server. I don't like liars, and 
> editing another person's public posts or email the kind of lie that only a 
> system operator is privileged to commit. However, when you have that kind 
> of liar running a server, nothing that appears on that server has any 
> credibility or any value.


Not me at least... but I'd love to do that if I could get my hands on!
You may approach the Webmaster and ask your questions. However, if you have 
posted something that goes against constitutional rules, he has the right to 
do it without your consent. We had to do that in the past when dealing with 
another sick person who was spamming the NGs with constant attacks.


> Hmm... I did promise I was leading to a question, didn't I? I suppose that 
> one won't do... Hmm... Let's think.
> Perhaps "Why have I become so much more selective about my friends as I 
> age?"
>

It sounds like a combination of schizophrenia and Alzheimer: one person, a 
mirror, and every day a new friend, right?
Anyway, in this NG and in the TPC NGs you can't pick up friends it seems.

NOTE:
If anybody happens to show sincere interest in this belligerent fellow, here 
is the only available mugshot: http://shanenj.tripod.com/sah/index.html





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