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   >> Believe it or not, you can ignore any echo you want and it has   
   >> no effect on any echo rule. Peter's rule did not require anyone   
   >> to read the echo.   
      
    EC> His remedy for provocation was to prohibit it.  Your remedy   
    EC> for provocation is to say to the victim "don't read the   
    EC> echo."  That makes the rule moot, just as it makes the rule   
    EC> on personal attacks moot.   
      
    Provocation is prohibited in the Debate echo. Saying something   
    Richardson disagrees with, no matter how vehemently, is not   
    provocation. If he thinks a post to others, on something I truly   
    believe to be true, is a deliberate attempt to provoke him, he   
    is seriously paranoid.   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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