wrote in message
ups.com...


*JimH* wrote:
wrote in message
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But you have screwed yourself, JimH. Don't you realize that? The link
now goes to the ad as you claim to have changed it on June 29. How does
that establish your lie that the ad from 2003 contained your address
and phone number in the comments section. You, I, and everybody else
who saw that ad from 2003 know that it did not.

I will not apologize for doing something that I did not do.

Will you apologize for piling lie, upon lie, upon lie, upon lie?


Yes. I got caught up in this and I thought I had no other way out. I
made
a mistake accusing you , although at the time I did think the ad
contained
that information. I dug myself deeper and deeper and made you the
scapegoat.

I am ashamed of what I did and have lost all credibility here for doing
it.
I should have known better after I discovered I was initially wrong.

I apologize Chuck. I have no excuse.


Dang.

What to say?

Apology accepted, of course.

I must also shoulder some of the blame for this last bout of acrimony.
I responded badly (to something I felt may have been an inappropriate
response to the second post in this thread) when I introduced a link
that I suspected you would find at least slightly discomforting. Had I
known that it would have proven almost mortifying, rather than just a
bit of wicked humor at your own, self-inflicted expense, I would hope
that I might have reconsidered at the time. So I must apologize as well
for lighting this fire and not standing down early on when it became
apparent the discussion was unlikely to be resolved in a positive
manner.

As wew both know, this thing took on a life of its own.

I'm willing to bury the (very bloody) hatchet and just move on. That
will, of course, require some mutual effort but rec.boats would be a
better NG without JimH and Gould gunning for one another all the time.


Thank you Chuck. You are indeed a real gentleman.

And the blame falls on me, not you.