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[RC] Keeping it private - Catfish Daniels

The last time I got into a hot debate and strong disagreement with someone on ridecamp, I got kicked off temporarely because I failed to keep these nasty e-mails private. And thinking about it, I got kicked off rightfully so. It was just not a cool thing to force this negative dialogue down other people's throats. It makes ridecamp way too venomous and ugly. Would it be wrong for me to ask you guys to keep these e-mails amongst yourselves without posting those publicly on the forum?

Thanks guys

Catfish

From: Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx
To: howard9732@xxxxxxx, db8ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx, ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC]   New Rider Proposals
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:25:20 EST

In a message dated 12/11/2003 7:49:47 PM Pacific Standard Time,
howard9732@xxxxxxx writes:
You know what? If any of that is true, you should be the ones jumping at the
chance to teach others at rides who don't know as much as you do. But, I
guess you're just too damn busy earning those miles and points and don't have
time for all that. Attitudes like yours, Lauren, will ensure nothing will ever
change and 11 deaths per year will remain the norm. Complacency, like speed,
will continue to kill.
Helllloooooooooooooo ooooooout therrrrrrrrreeeeee........Would the real
Howard please step forward?? LOOK AT YOUR OWN RIDE RECORD before you start
preaching to the choir!!!!!! Your sanctimonious, self-serving piousness is
disgusting in light of how you actually RIDE YOUR OWN HORSES!!!! Sit down and SHUT
UP!!! Until you can (as you would say yourself) walk the walk, then don't talk
the talk! It just doesn't work and it quite frankly pisses most people off
who actually have put in the miles and who actually ARE trying to do what's
right for their own horses and other people's horses. Howard, quite frankly, you
just don't have anything behind you to back up your big mouth. WE as
endurance ridrers, for the most part, ADORE our horses and put their needs first, we
don't need to hear from a newbie who almost killed a couple of horses how we
should do it, it just doesn't sit well. If you could format your posts more
along the lines of "I know I don't know anything but...here's what I think"
maybe we would all at least read them attentively....however, Howard as the
savior of all horses is a bit hard to swallow.

Now, on the other hand, MMS proposals are pretty cool and come from somebody
who HAS the miles and the experience to "preach" to the rest of us. They are
WORTH looking at (nevermind if Howard supports them you guys, they make
sense). I totally support the concept of not letting one more horse die in this
sport.....is that realistic? No! But should one more horse die from being
"overridden"? Absolutely not and they do need our protection, without a doubt.
So, let's get back to the subject at hand (not Howard bashing, no matter how FUN
that is) but some of the really good horse protection proposals that have
been brought forward.

Sylvia

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