> Reef Fish wrote:
>>> Lee Bell wrote: > >>It was a criticism of others in a forum that
>>> they do >> not share. The right to free speech does not include the
>>> right to do >> it anonymously. > >Where on earth did you learn THAT
>>> ? I can think of dozens of examples >where a person's anonymity is
>>> preserved by law, in order to protect >that person's other civil
>>> rights while still allowing free speech.
>>
>> This brings up yet another interesting issue in which I am, once
>> again, Lee Bell's target in what he posted about what I said about
>> Ron Lee (which I will say it anytime given the same circumstances
>> which Lee Bell didn't report).

Poor, poor Bob.  The clips above have nothing to do with you.

>> This Robert Lung had posted his derogatory remarks (mostly assholes)
>> about me in scuba-SE several times.

He's in good company.

>> I was about to let the matter drop, when this RObert Lung reared its
>> ugly head in REC.SCUBA, and Lee Bell chose to forward this FORGER's
>> name, in citing what I posted, as if it's Lee's deliberate attempt to
>> sew the seed (in the minds of the rec.scubans) that Reef Fish (me)
>> and the dispicable FORGER is one and the same, or that I make posts
>> with forged names.

I need to be clear on this.  I don't know who is postiong as Robert Lung.
He's not a forger and is probably as entitled to use his chosen name as
others who have chosen to post anonymously.  Anybody that is Bob's on line
enemy, probably has good reason.  It is, however, pretty obvious that Robert
Lung his chosen e-mail name as an insult to Bob and it is possibly that he
intended to lead others to believe his posts are of the real Robert Ling.
Either way, I don't approve of the Robert.Lung poster and have no interest
in trying to make anybody think that he is the real Bob Ling.

If I have copied Robert Lung posts as Bob's it was a mistake.  I would not
do that intentionally and I formally and publicly appologize to Bob for any
time the mistake has occurred.  Apparently, it is no longer an issue here.
Nevertheless, this is where it was mentioned and this is where the apology
belongs.

The next time I get a Robert Lung message, whether from a newsgroup, list
server or other e-mail source, he will become the second person in my
blocked poster's lists.

Lee