On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:09:40 +1000, Christian Gerzner
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On 2004-03-14 15:33:15 PST, Lee Bell ([log in to unmask])
>wrote on Newsgroups: rec.scuba:
>
><http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&threadm=20040314204755.20595.00001380%40mb-m28.aol.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%
3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Drec.scuba>
>Sheeeeesh, I was bored, and found the above.
>
>I somehow wish I hadn't.

If you read scuba-SE via the LISTSERV archives, you would have found
what I had said about Lee's post here.


>Lee,
>
>What concerns me (even) more is that you included Michael's address in
>your posting. Seems to me that that is plain vindictive since just
>about everyone has a caveat on their address as a matter of routine on
>that list. Look at your own address quoted above!

Good point!


>That, pretty well, disgusts me.

If "metooism" is a word that needs a place of origin, I think we
have just found it in Scuba-SE.  I think the feeling of disgust
about Lee Bell's act is unanimous -- at least from the posts I've
read.


>Bob, since I suspect that there'll be enough others, leave it alone
>please even though I know that you'll be sorely tempted. :)

Christian, I march by MY own drumbeat.

I don't need any coaching on what to do or not to do.  As much as
I appreciated your post on this matter, I have expressed mine
in scuba-SE LONG before you found Lee's post in rec.scuba.


>"Metooism" is, however, a singularly ugly charicature of a word.

A good word, in certain contexts.  In this case, YOU have
unwittingly committed "Metooism" yourself.  :-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Christian

-- Bob.