Re: RC: Starved Horses/Mud Flinging

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In a message dated 3/29/99 11:01:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, 4horn@home.com
writes:

<< Yes, Tom has said not-nice, rude, mean spirited stuff (I have always
 took it with humor but some of you don't) BUT if you fling it back your
 just the same.  >>

I'm sure that Sarah meant hers in the same vein as Tom did, since it was in
reply to one of his jabs.  You are right that this sort of thing is not
particularly appropriate--just that some of us found it a little hard to take
seeing Sarah get pointed out for one little jab back (after her endless
patient posts on the subject) when in fact she and others have been
inappropriately needled so many times.  Certainly folks who have not competed
often have things to contribute--that's not really the point here.  What IS
the point is that it gets pretty tiresome seeing someone of Sarah's standing
in the endurance community (nearly 2 decades of ride vetting as well as being
a competitor and researcher) constantly being denigrated as being one who
hides in the ivory tower and has no real life experience out on the "sandy
loam."  While she may have been out of line to jab back, I can certainly
appreciate why she did it, after all the invective that has been heaped on her
(and others equally well qualified) in this public forum by the addressee of
her post.  

Heidi Smith, DVM


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