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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:07:31 +1000
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
From: bdi <bdi@bd*.co*.au*>
Subject: Dave, you're an idiot. Sit down.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Sutton <pilots@na*.ne*>
To: William Smithers <will@tr*.co*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Portrait of a loonie, WAS: Madison Blue
 >
 >
 > Here we have another clue to his manifest insanity. It's somehow
 > OK for him to be an experienced NE Wreck diver and produce
 > all sorts of drivel regarding the techniques that are used by guys
 > doing it every day, yet when the locales are exchanged, suddenly
 > it's impossible for a northern resident to be acceptably skilled in
 > a Florida based sport. So, Georgie, which is it? You don't wreck dive
 > all the time, so are you unsafe at it? Or are you -special-?  Feeling
 > that you are somehow 'perfect', with an unrealistic view of your
 > own limitations is a baseline sign of an internal disorder.

etc, etc, et fucking cetera.

Dave, you're becoming obsessive about the list again. 
I thought we'd got you over that and had moved on to 
cleaning up your potentially dangerous gear rigging 
style, your ill-thought-out methods of diving, and
your hopeless defense of both which alternates between
'that's how everyone on the boat does it' and 'I've 
been doing it longer than you'.

Ah well. Back to slow learner's seat, Dave.

About the list. The listmaster - JR Holroyd - knows 
something you don't. He has a deliberate hands-off 
policy towards debate on the list. Consequently
the list runs itself. It is a large, succesful and 
vigorous community that was here before you, Dave, and 
will be here long after you've gone. It doesn't need 
a self-imposed style-monitor to run it, nor a phoney 
atmosphere of offended modesty. 

Also, try to lose that chip on your shoulder about 
George. I know it's a bitch that he's a far more 
accomplished and knowledgeable diver, in cave and ocean, 
than you, but your public displays of jealousy are
embarrassing to witness coming from a grown man.

Many of us around the world are much better, safer 
divers because of George, some of us because of the 
aggressiveness with which he promotes the safe diving 
message.

rgrds    billyw




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