What Dick also fails to report is that there's a bit of history between him and myself. This, as far as I can see, goes back to a fairly firm discussion that eventually resulted in him being booted off concertina.net, for both his public behaviour and the content of private messages I received.

When I started posting on Mudcat Dick on several occasions jumped me in a most unpleasant manner. Mind you, he initially got my goat and I responded in kind, which I regret.

Since there have been scuffles on thesession.org, where he posts under a number of ever changing aliases, while presently banned under his own name. At one point was put on notice by the webmaster that should he try contact me again via private message his account would be closed forthwith.

I entered a discussion on concertina.net some time ago with a poster called Martin Gibson, an alias, I have since learned, not unknown on Mudcat. I sussed who I was dealing with, which resulted in an immediate ban of that username from that forum.