Jim Bell, Apology to list. Was: [Yadda Yadda Yadda]

[Timothy C. May]

At 11:44 PM 4/21/96, Black Unicorn wrote:

>All this said, I find Mr. May's and Mr. Sandfort's criticism stinging.  Mr.
>Bell, and my response to him, manages to sap a great deal of time and effort
>from myself and others for no gain aside draining his (and to some extent
>my) reputation
>capital.  These disputes serve little purpose otherwise.  It's clear to

By the way, I certainly was not making a personal condemnation of Uni, or
of Jim Bell for that matter. I was mainly making the point that Sandy's
point about setting up a wager is problematic (in fact, Uni makes the same
points vis-a-vis his view of how Bell might start finagling about the terms
of any bet--this was in fact seen during the Extropians experiments, and is
what I meant when I said that more time would be spent debating the
bet....).

I admit that I once I wrote the word "the Unibells" (Uni + Bell, of
course), I liked the ring of it (:-}) and used it for the thread title as
well.

I was serious that I deleted unread the Bell/Unicorn rants; I suspect
nearly all others do as well, so their time spent on these messages these
last several weeks was even more of a waste.

--Tim May

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