take 

    intruders,
    .net-ist camp
    recruits
    .net-ism
    genuine Smalltalkers

and add

    anything intelligent to say
    tirade of personal abuse against me
    freedom of speech
    libel

and you have a nice highly provocative email ...
It's a kind of generic email in that you just need
to replace "Smalltalk" with the name of any other
programming language and you can reuse it on any
other mailing list ...

... which makes me wonder if Justin's mom's name's Eliza ;->

so let's just stop talking politics and concentrate on squeak,
unless, of course, you have problems creating a Justin-emulator in squeak ;->

s. 

Justin Walsh (2001-11-01 13:22):

> Or could this, Jim, be the "intruders" from the C# .net-ist camp, financed
> by you know who, fossicking for recruits?
> It seems that if you had anything intelligent to say you would have said it
> by now instead of the tirade of personal abuse against me and less than
> subtle advertising for .net-ism.
> Stop right there and tell me what I have said that is abusive. And as before
> I will apologise.
> I don't think the genuine Smalltalkers are fooled by you at all.
> At least one among you knows the difference between freedon of speech and
> libel.
> Thank you
> Justin