[pct-l] Mac McCallister

["Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>]

I would like to reveal a very distressing incident that happened to me
privately:

"Big Mac" McCallister E-mailed me privately and called me a phony, and told
me that "fooling them may give your ego a boost but it is not good for
anybody else[on the list]".  I know I am not a phony.  And Mac's recent
"Valentine " message was calling Owen a phony also.  I do not agree with
everything that Owen has written, and certainly not with his Ogres Tale,
but he is not a phony.  And he has not done much of what Mac said. And it
seems that this person could not tell an authentic hiker and climber from
one that wasn't.  We often are critical of the very qualities that we are
most uneasy of in ourselves. Mac had been using free E-mail from The Black
World Today, the diction of some of his posts were familiar.( Who uses free
e-mail on this list? )  I concluded that Mac was not who he said he was.

I would like people on the mailing lists to keep their minds open to all
the possibilities.  If you simply react to the demonstration that free
e-mail can allow flame wards to be started by alter egos of people who
could be sitting in the state penitentery, and have nothing better to do,
then you are cyber-innocents. And that innocence will bring you heartache,
as it has me.  I do not ask that you believe that the world is run by the
dark side, only that that side does exist and will continue.  My mom used
to say forewarmed is forearmed.

Goforth
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