People forget sometimes that free speech does not mean speech without consequences.

And some people are deliberately mis-casting Max's remarks about GUESTS and to certain GUESTS, as if he meant them to apply to all guests. This isn't working, though. You see, most people, new members as well as old hands, managed to get his drift just fine, without taking unbrage.... because he laid out what he meant before using GUEST as a pronoun in the rest of his letter.

But the dynamos of negativity have repeatedly made clear that their attitudes about Max are so permanently sour that whatever he had said, and however he had said it, they'd have taken that as an opportunity to blame him again for their inability to use a cost-free resource effectively and positively.

~Susan