Digital BW, The Print

Whoever perpetrated this behind-the-back move is, in my book, a crass 
craven coward..

I spent years working in politics and this is a move beneath all but the 
slimiest people I encountered in that field.

This list and other lists are meant to be places where opinions 
axiomatically differ and ideas are exchanged.  The more opinions that 
are silenced the less information we all have as group members.  It is 
through that VERY open exchange of information that we all advance the 
art.  To take disputes offlist is bad enough, but to actually make up 
commentary to undercut someone on this list is utterly reprehensible and 
almost beyond comment..

Whoever this person was... I don't know whom you thought was benefiting 
in your little ego-play (except your own feelings of grandiosity), but 
by silencing a consistent contributor to this list, you have harmed 
every member of it.  

Mike, as an aside.. If this harms your business in ANY way, I would say 
you have a VERY strong case for a libel/slander action against whomever 
this loser is.  You could actually file against "John Doe" and force 
those who were contacted to name the individual once the suit is filed. 
 In my opinion, this was done with malice and could easily be shown to 
be malicious.

Whoever you are, you crossed a clear ethical line here.  This is the 
kind of crap we all see from 10 year olds, not adults.

I may not agree with every one of Mike's or anyone's posts, but to 
concoct a hoax to undercut someone... all I can say is the perpetrator 
must feel mighty psychologically inadequate if they need to resort to 
such means instead of confronting disagreements, etc., personally and 
openly.

I hope others will join me in apologizing to Mike for the actions of 
another group member and ask him to consider remaining an active 
participant.

Keith