<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter William Lount</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@smalltalk.org">peter@smalltalk.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:<br>>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter William Lount <<a href="mailto:peter@smalltalk.org">peter@smalltalk.org</a>> writes:<br><br>There are also other laws other than copyright to consider. In British
<br>Columbia, where I am located, a party to a conversation may make it<br>public if it's in defense of their person as my posting clearly was. End<br>of story.</blockquote><div><br>... <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Also I didn't retaliate with any personal attack. I simply stated the<br>facts of what was said and asked the person to stop their attacks, which<br>seems to have occurred as the subsequent email-posting exchange shows.
<br>Furthermore, out of a desire to have positive conversions subsequently<br>follow, I provided suggestions of how to ask appropriate questions<br>rather than initiate ad hominem attacks.<br><br>I suppose that you support ad hominem attacks upon the person even if
<br>they are sent privately to attempt to influence, "bully" or "inflame"<br>someone's behavior in a negative way with false accusations?<br><br>How would you have handled it in a way that would positively influence
<br>the person's initiating the ad hominem person attack?<br><br>All the best,<br><br>Peter William Lount<br><a href="mailto:peter@smalltalk.org">peter@smalltalk.org</a></blockquote><div><br>How is telling someone in private that they are being trollish, an ad hominem?
<br><br>How to handle this in a bad way? Let me think. <br>How about try and make them lose face publicly? Expose their private email, and add some 'facts.'<br>Tell them they have to follow some of the laws of your home country.
<br>Help teach them how to ask 'appropriate questions', so I don't have to do this to them again. :))<br>I create new code of conduct for the group. Don't talk about X. So nobody feels suppressed.<br></div>
Oh, and of course, I'm defending your free speech rights. I published your private email, didn't I?<br></irony><br><br>Some of the things that jumped out to me.<br><br>Libel: <font size="-1">Any false or malicious written or printed statement that __publicly__ ridicules someone or damages their reputation.
</font></div><br>So I'm thinking he isn't the one that damaged your reputation. <br><br>