Last Friday I received the following personal message on the paragliding forum from brendan reid:

hi davis

a long time ago i put something in your tin cup
i am pger not a hger

would i have put more in your tin cup before reading all your recent nonsense contribs on this forum .... maybe......? Up til now i skimmed the ozreport via google reader .....

will i now? In a word no.

Pg and hg are very close in many ways

pg/hg antagonism crap and high noise/sig ratio ain't gonna get my vote

have a nice day

bren

I wrote back:

Hi Brendan,

Are you referring to the Oz Report or to the Oz Report forum (or both)?

I have to say that what is said on the forum is the responsibility of the posters, not me. I just try to keep it within the lines.

bren responded:

hi devos
seems you still don't get it
i refer to your personal contribution to pg forum
bren

I wrote back:

Hi Brendan,

You mentioned both.

You wrote:

"would i have put more in your tin cup before reading all your recent nonsense contribs on this forum .... maybe......?"

So it appears to me that you were willing to forgive my "recent nonsense" on the pg forum (although what that exactly refers to is a bit unclear).

"Up til now i skimmed the ozreport via google reader .....

will i now? In a word no."

So reading this it appears that you are referring to my forum, although that is not clear, as I am not clear what you are getting re Google reader, and not the Oz Report (which is what I ask contributions for).

So you write:

"seems you still don't get it i refer to your personal contribution to pg forum"

Why do you say that I don't get it, when it appears as though you are making it difficult for me to "get it," by changing your mind about what "it" is exactly. :-)

Thanks.

bren responds:

Devis

i do not appreciate your recent contribs to pgforum therefore I will never again contribute to your tin cup for ozreport

clear?

Don't bother writing back as i won't be reading it

bren

I respond:

So let me get this straight. You are declining to pay for your Oz Report subscription (which is in a donation format) because of what I have written in another forum which has nothing to do with the Oz Report itself?

So if the editor of your home town newspaper wrote into the New York Times and expressed an opinion that you disagreed with, you would start stealing his newspapers to read the comics?

Thanks.

You might be able to read "my posts" at http://paraglidingforum.com by searching for my name as the poster.