At 10:25 AM 3/2/2003 -0500 Jim Sharkey wrote: >Jeroen, I don't see that as what JDG is saying at all.
Jim,
You know, John, if you want to send a message off-list, you really must change the address in the "To:" field before sending the message. Actually, I'm surprised you forgot to do that, given the number of off-list replies to my on-list messages you have sent me.
Don't worry about it, he was just trying to flame me to see if he could get me going.
I was not "trying to flame you", I was pointing out the flaw and over-generalisation in your argument.
I don't even think that *he* believes that I was talking about the Red Cross and journalists.
Your statement was phrased in such a way that everyone who intentionally goes into a war zone would qualify as "war criminal".
Anyhow, I am well aware that everyone else on the List recognizes what I meant and that Jeroen was simply being absurd with the intent to flame.
Absurd? Me? If anyone is being absurd, it's you with your practice of replying off-list to my messages because you're too afraid to post them on-list. Of course, that does a wonderful job of showing that even *you* don't believe the nonsense you post on-list...
So anyways, don't worry about it if he posts some sort of rationalization in response to you - because I certainly won't....
Yeah, riiiiight. I guess that's why I received an off-list reply to my on-list message from you.
Might as well make use of this opportunity to reply to that message. Contrary to what you wrote, my response to your post *was* serious, and what I wrote is *not* a "willfull distortion of your intent" -- it is called "pointing out the flaw in your argument".
Jeroen "On-list replies only" van Baardwijk
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