On Monday, October 16, 2000 4:35 PM, Reef Fish wrote - in response to J-M's
post:

(snip)
> >(BTW, how do you
> >own them, how much does it cost you to maintain those readers)

> Jean-Marc, there are things in this world (and credibility in scuba
> discussion forums) that money CANNOT buy.

I resent that!  I can be bought!  :-)

> You're simultaneously insulting MANY readers of Scuba-SE, let alone
> the question of insulting me.  When several "respected citizens",
> including but not limited to Strike, spoke out on my behalf in Scuba-L,
> Nick and others insinuated, as you do now, that *I* put them up to it.

I don't feel comfortable with the word "respected" - besides which it
doesn't do any thing for the roguish image that I'm trying to cultivate in
order to ingratiate myself with Viv and her workmates!

> It turned out I hadn't corresponded privately with ANY of them for
> weeks (if not months) because I was too BUSY travelling (and so were
> they with their work and travel) to engage in private correspondence
> beyond public ones.

And that's a fact!

(Well!  That's my name removed from the list of 'usual suspects'!)  :-)

Strike