And Ted I do have proof, but it is in form of e-mails of other users here, which I am not going to disclose, unless these people want to repeat here themselves what they wrote to me.

Fran, as I suggested in my REQUEST to you, some emails, from SOME people to SOME of YOUR comments/diaries don't prove a GENERAL hostility in ET. I'm sure there are a few intolerant people here, but I don't think it's typical. Also, because you, quite reasonably, don't feel able to cite the emails, we can't tell if they were reasonable, gently mocking, made some valid points, or were just stupid and nasty.

And I did not respond to your demand for proof, because you give me the feeling that you are not interested in sharing. It feels like a Professor asking for homework, which he then will judge and validate or disproof.

"demand" is emotive language - it was a request. I don't know why you assume I'm not interested in sharing and here my status is just that of a fellow contributor, and contributors frequently ask others to justify claims they have made.

I love to share, but I resent being judged.

Any judgment is not of you but of your claim and possibly of any evidence there might be for them.

And as to writing my own diaries - you know even though you might think the Salon is nothing - it is time consuming and doesn't leave me much time to write diaries, besides working full time and also having sort of a life outside of ET.

I have the greatest respect for the work you do on Salon (even if I suggested Le Carré instead of the Norwegian composer :-))and am well aware of how much time it must take and I thank you for it.

 

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

And Ted I do have proof, but it is in form of e-mails of other users here, which I am not going to disclose, unless these people want to repeat here themselves what they wrote to me.