[MR] a request for help

[Beiskaldi at aol.com]

Milord, speaking as one of those people, I apologize if I upset you.  I did not take any offense to his original comments, only suggested that he keep in mind the related costs. I was not trying to be adversarial or come to your defense.

However, I did take offense, as did others, to his subsequent sarcastic comments and personal attack on me offlist, and later public ridicule of others, snide remarks and name calling, which in his own words were 'bad form'.

I am not sure I know what you mean by losing a kingdom herald though.

thyra

In a message dated Tue, 24 Jul 2001  1:31:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "R. Hollis" <rhollis at coastalnet.com> writes:

>  To all lords and ladies of Atlantia,    I am the one that made a simple request for   help in finding tips for a foil. This has gotten out of hand and needs to stop   today. Gaston answered my question and gave me his opinion on the weapon I was   going to use. Which, by the way, failed over the weekend and had to be   discarded. He was not trying to ridicule or otherwise. I understood his comments   and did not take offense. I was the only one that would have had any reason to   take offense seeing as I was the one his comments were directed to. I am   concerned though that other felt they had to come to my rescue in such a   fashion. The actions taken by those that have felt it necessary to attack   Gaston's comments have in fact dishonored me. This type of thing has already   aided in our loss of our Kingdoms Herald. Do we wish the type of thing to also   cause our great kingdom to also lose some of it precious   participants?    I wish to apologize to those that have no!
t taken   part in this conflict 
and hope I have not caused any inconvenience.