Re: Appologies if necessary

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Your friend Bill Wulf has held me personally responsible for Shapiros note
and daring to forward it. I am deeply upset. I have defended you often from
people attacking your position as somehow biased. I repeatedly have said
that while I disagree with your positions at times they are well thought
out and reasonable.




I am not sure that my emotions are not so twisted by Bill's attacks that I
can not be radicalized by this


Dave


> > for forwarding the Shapiro note if it offended you. I thought it was not a
> > personal attack but rather maybe a too subtle for email satire. Again
> > personal appologies.
>
> Between you & I:
>
> Thanks.  I didn't find it funny, and didn't really get it.  He said I
> made statements that were "deliberately misleading".  Is he accusing me
> of actually making such statements or accusing me of accusing others
> of doing that?  Since I have not done the former and do not believe I have
> done
> the latter at least in any public forum, I am, yes, offended, because I
> do not appreciate attacks on my intergrity in a public forum.
>
> I stand by my words and did not find any of his arguments to make much
> sense.  Yet responding to them does not seem like the right thing to do
> either.
>
> Dorothy