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> On 8 Jul 2005 14:54:44 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"
> <tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote:
>
>
> OK. I see it now. I did not see it before because (Thank Goodness) I
> do not rread all the postings to this group.
>
> Here is what you say was in your original letter:
>
> "Furthermore, your question (quoted below) involved assumptions or
> assertions I do not share." -- e-mail, July 2001
>
> You complain that Evans printed this as supposedly a direct quote from
> you.:
>
> "Your involved assumptions or assertions I do not share." -- Chess
> Life, 12/2001, page 7
>
> Your complaint is that the four words: " Furthermore, question
> (quoted below)" were deleted.
>
> I disagree. The word "furthermore" is not good style and any competent
> editor would cut it out.
>
> The words "quoted below" should also be cut out. The words might not
> even be quoted below when published.
>
> So, the only word you have any valid complaint about is the word
> "question". I agree that it would have been best to leave that in,
> providing that space allowed. It was probably cut out by mistake when
> the three surrounding words were cut out. However, cutting out the
> word question did not change the meaning of the sentence that was
> clearly preserved and understood.
>
> The issue now is that on this Usenet group you have posted more than
> one hundred vituperative personal attacks on Grandmaster Larry Evans,
> Larry Parr and myself all over this deletion of just one word in a
> letters to the editor column. You have stirred up hundreds of personal
> attacks on us by various posters all over this one word. You have
> caused your backers to lose one thousand dollars to me (for that I am
> thankful).
>
> The result is that your letters to the editor will probably never be
> published again by any editor who finds out about this. I certainly
> doubt that Chess Life magazine will ever be willing to publish
> anything by you again.
>
> Sam Sloan