In a message dated 01/06/2000 10:53:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> I would suggest that there is ample material here
>  for discussion without naming names.

My request for an interpreter was more basic than a suggestion to "name
names".

The interpretation I need is basic - that Larrey is behind one product and
Mike is behind another.  Despite the fact that I'm a "list owner", it's news
to me.  This fact, obvious to some, adds a dimension to the discussion
otherwise lost on some of us not waist-deep in the trade.  And the fact that
you, Mike and Larrey, are "behind" different products does not devalue your
remarks in any way; but it does explain some of the body English, which is
otherwise somewhat mysterious, and becomes a sort of static.

There is an ancient Pakistani saying (involving discovering the physical
appearance of a telephone operator) covering this situation: unfortunately I
don't remember what it is.

Christopher Gray