Firstly, I do not feel threatened by Mboge. I know we've disagreed in the past, and I personally think he's been and continues to be rude and insulting to me because of those past disagreements, and he also has a penchant for insulting others he doesn't agree with, in the guise of "defending himself" I guess. I found his private email to me to be at most a nuissance, but not threatening. If he is being censored because of anything he may have said to me, then let me be the first to say that I don't think he should be censored for that reason alone. I don't feel victimized and I don't think his comment about "snuffing the life out of " people who bully and harass him was or is directed to me. I find it interesting, though, that for someone who considers me to be someone not worth his time, that he'd first of all take the time to write me privately, and secondly, continue to discuss the issue publicly online. I don't mind disagreements, I have disagreements with people all of the time, but what I don't like is when disagreements degenerate into taunts, insults, etc., and further when said disagreements turn into grudges, whereby it becomes impossible to have any kind of a discussion with someone about any topic because they will forever hold a past disagreement over your head inperpetuity. If I disagree with you on one thing, it may be that I may agree with you on another thing, so I'm not going to hold any kind of disagreement with you against you, to the point that I can't discuss anything else with you. And to me that shows maturity and cool-headedness. If I do have a strong disagreement with someone where it gets heated, I try to make amends afterwords, and make sure we are on good terms, and to make sure that the person I've disagreed with knows that I don't dislike them as a person, I just didn't agree with them on something. That's how I work. I don't hold grudges, I don't hold people's past arguments with me over their heads. And I'm just saying that if people choose to do that with me, these are not people that I'd like to have any kind of a discussion with. I don't have anything against anyone on this list, in fact, I'm sure that many are perfectly nice and sensible people in real life, but for many, including myself sometimes, we get behind a computer screen and forget that the person we are talking to is a real person with thoughts, feelings, etc. And we say things to them we'd never probably even have the gutts to say to their faces in real life. And I'd be happy to give out my number if Mboge or anyone else wants to call me and say to me, to my face/over the phone, the same sorts of insulting things they say here online, because my guess is that they won't take me up on that challenge. Why? Because it's easy to insult people from the comfort of your keyboard. It's much harder to insult someone to their face. But anyway, I do not feel victimized or bullied, just wanted to amke that clear again. And I think that Mboge and Haruna are perfectly good people, but they unfortunately got carried away, in thier attempt to be macho or something, I don't know (smile*. Ginny -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
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