I am sorry Tommy, but I just cannot take TomPaul's hypocracy about the sanctity of private messages.
For those who do not know what this is about, you should . . .
Tom MacWood has either left the site or been kicked off, because he publicly asked TEPaul why TEPaul hadn't forwarded private emails from certain individuals, like TEPaul had said he would.
As near as I can tell, this is what happened . . .
1. Most likely to make some point or to get Tom MacWood to back off on the Merion issues, TEPaul told Tom MacWood that he had been receiving private emails about the Merion thread.
2. TEPaul told MacWood the names of the individuals that sent the emails, and also told him that he would forward them.
3. When the emails did not arrive, MacWood called him on it in a public forum.
4. This most likely sent TEPaul into panic mode, and rightfully so. After all, TEPaul is the one who betrayed the confidences of the men who sent the emails.
5. TEPaul tried to cajole MacWood into pulling the post, and MacWood wouldn’t budge.
6. TEPaul then used his pull at gca.com to get someone else to get rid of Tom MacWood's post.
7. Understandably, MacWood finds this unacceptable.
MacWood wasn’t the one who was telling tales out of school, TEPaul was. If these emails were private, TEPaul should have kept them to himself. MacWood’s post shouldn’t have been censored to cover for TEPaul, who apparently betrayed confidences in order to make a point in an argument.
Should MacWood have posted the names? I probably would not have handled it the way he did, just because I’d rather not drag third parties down into this muck. But I have got to say, given the abuse that Tom MacWood has taken from TEPaul, I cannot say I blame him one bit.
This was TEPaul’s bad, not Tom MacWood’s. Yet unfortunately we may lose MacWood over it.
TEPaul, do the men who sent you the emails know you were using their names in your argument? Do they know you were planning on forwarding their personal emails?