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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: Britain's Real Monarch
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:21:22 GMT
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In message of 5 Jan, Peter Stewart <> wrote:

> Renia wrote:
> > Sorry to upset you, Peter. If I'd known you would react this way, I
> > wouldn't have bothered starting the thread in the first place or
> > responded to those who made comments. Everything has to be so dry here,
> > which is why I don't usually dare start a new thread. I shan't bother
> > again.
>
> I don't know why you should take responsibility, Renia - starting a
> thread that is squarely on topic doesn't make you liable for what
> becomes of it.
>
> There are currently 94 posts in the _main_ thread on the subject, only a
> small proportion of which are from you & those perfectly unobjectionable
> as far as I recall.
>
> Tony Robinson is certainly not worth quoting to the newsgroup in my
> opinion, if indeed you did so - a crummy actor, a dud politician and no
> historian at all doesn't amount to any kind of authority on the matter
> in hand.
>

What happened was that someone cross-posted this thread to the medieval
history newsgroup and then we got in all the (other) loonies that reside
there.

I deliberately replied on two occasions but deleted the cross-posting
and set follow-ups to medieval genealogy, since when this particular
thread has been relatively sensible (no disprespect to anyone).

In other words, never cross-post! It just brings in the loonies.

--
Tim Powys-Lybbe
For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org

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