Re: Yuri's Reluctance

frank murray (fmurray@pobox.com)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 04:26:00 GMT

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:30:40 GMT, malkinb7@mindspring.com (Michelle
Malkin) wrote:

>I didn't mean to make it appear that your offers to Yuri weren't sincere. I'm
>sure that they were. That's the whole problem. Since your offers were sincere,
>why was Yuri so rude as to not even reply to either of you. A simple, "Thanks,
>but I can't go at this time" or 'medical problems prevent' or 'no gelt, no go',
>would have been enough on his part. A silence like that reflects his own lack
>of sincerity. He apparently prefers his armchair to getting his hands dirty (or
>wet in this case) on the real thing. Either that or he's afraid of revealing his
>actual lack of knowledge. I apologize if I sound nasty, but people like Yuri
>make me see red.

i've no doubt that the invitations were made in good faith, but might
they have more diplomatically been made through private email??...the
contentious nature of the newsgroup lends the air of challenge to any
such invitation made here...both the decision and the grounds for
making the decision to accept or not accept such invitation is
nobody's business but yuri's...to demand that he make public his
answer to a misplaced invitation is an unwarrented intrusion into his
personal affairs...please cease this activity...

frank