system: You are Ty Meissner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Altern. Medicine message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Probert about "Re: Expiration Warning".

They wrote:
-=> On 10-18-97  13:06, Mark Probert typed to Ty Meissner <=-
-=> Re: Re: Expiration Warning  <=-
TM> SA>SK> Well, debate is often worthwhile. Constant agreement is not
TM> SA>SK> something  that is. Especially in an echo where debate and/or
TM> SA>SK> disagreement has  health of humans as its goal. "Here, take
TM> SA>SK> this" is not something that is a very bright idea to blindly
TM> SA>SK> say...or to blindly follow.
TM> SA>     However, debate follows rules and is constructive.  The
TM> SA>rules to follow  are those set up by the moderator, who has
TM> SA>listed areas that are off-topic.   There is at least one that I
TM> SA>have seen you constantly are trying to nag,  bully, and generally
TM> SA>insult your way back into.
TM> SK> Nope, I don't want to get MJ back into the discussion. It is the
TM> SK> way that the moderator banned it that is my concern.
TM> SA>     I think that Dia, while often reluctant to cut a person's
TM> SA>feed for the  echo, has done her job trying to get this echo back
TM> SA>on track.
TM> SK> It WAS on track. Dia just allowed the flamers to destroy it.
TM> SA>  It is her  playground here...you have to follow her rules.
TM> SK> I will, and have been. I'm just stating my concerns and
TM>opinions.
TM> SA>If not, help us pursue  alternative medicine...reduce our stress
TM> SA>levels by choosing not to post.
TM> SK> Well, if people speaking their minds stresses you out it's not
TM> SK> my fault  or my flaw.
TM>   I couldn't have said it better myself.   I completely agree
TM>   with you, Steve.
TM>   Banning a topic is one thing.   Knowingly stating that a a
MP> legal
TM>   medical remedy (in California where 25% of the US population
TM>   lives, as well as in Arizona and Virginia ) is illegal - a
MP> bald
TM>   faced lie - is NOT permissible, regardless of what self-
MP> appointed
TM>   arbiters of everything (like M. Probert) might say.
MP> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
MP> Clueless was a movie. You did not stay long enough to see the
MP> disclaimer  at the end where it said that you should not make it a way
MP> of life.
MP> I really wish Dia would do a bit of real moderating. Fighting with the
MP> CH is verboten in FIDO and can get a life time ban.
MP> The Few. The Proud. The Chosen.
MP> markprobe@aol.com
MP> -!-
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