Is there any chance that you will be saying sorry for the things you said here to this poor chap, when you were supporting those who had deleted his posting, when our unknown volunteer considered it was OK to delete his 'cut and paste'? This was before you posted yours here.

Subject: RE: Deleted post
From: Amos - PM
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 10:40 AM

AD:

Ta. If you had provided an analysis of what you thought were the merits of the issue it might have done more than just copying and pasting someone else's chestbeating. I have nothing against beating chests, mind you, but ya wanna see what you can come up with that will enhance the dialogue. No-one needs generalized negativity about how bad things are. We all know how bad things are! :>)

Amos I have no personal issue with you but there does appear to be different strokes for different folks. For I can't see that you did much different, when you re-started this thread with a 'cut and paste' that is open to the same critism (and worse). Not only was your 'cut and paste' safe from deletion, folks were later posting to thank you for posting it.

Perhaps they would have done the same with our friends 'cut and paste' contribution - had they not been denied the chance to?

Given that the vast majority of threads are not started with 'cut and paste', perhaps a little room and toleration can be found for the few that are, (like this one) and the readers left to decide the merits of them? It would be better than supporting what is pretty clearly a double standard.