RE: bullying

No....I think it is the fact that he is really, really obnoxious....
;o) I'm dead certain I'd find him just as annoying in person...which is
what he wants, of course. I'm appalled at his rude, ill mannered
behavior. I was raised to abhor that behavior in both myself and others
and to certainly not excuse it. As a different perspective, Dave is
baiting and people are responding. That hardly seems bullying. And I'm
certainly not anonymous.....
Jerry

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From: ezaslaw-YDxpq3io04c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ezaslaw@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 7:43 PM
To: BackpackingLight-/mG/qPxxnPRbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [BackpackingLight] bullying


Who among us would have DaveF's forbearance if we were being
disbelieved, 
taunted, ridiculed, provoked, and parodied the way he has been?  He's
had 
more backcountry experience than most of us, and if his spelling is 
idiosyncratic (like, maybe he's dyslexic -- as it appears some other
members 
of this list are to one degree or another), so what, spelling isn't what
he 
stands to teach us.  He's not unintelligent.  I am appalled at the
uncivil 
behavior of some members toward him -- some of the very ones who seem
most 
humane in other contexts.  Don't we ordinarily keep our disrespectful 
thoughts to ourselves?  What is it that's releasing this, the anonymity
of 
electronic communication?  Some sort of mob rule -- someone else's
aggressive 
behavior unleashing one's own?  PLEASE stop the bullying.  

Ellen  


 
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