Re: [Paddlewise] ACA certification (was: BASK&clubs/New Cert Concept)

>Julio wrote:
>The fact that you have gotten me in
>trouble by forwarding PARTS of a
>discussion out of context to people I
>happen to know personally makes me
>very furious.

I apologize, Julio, if I got you in trouble or made you furious. That
was not my intention. Actually, I did not forward anything to John Lull
(who replied about the ACA certification requirements). I did send
several messages (two of which gave what I thought was a totally false
description of the ACA cert program) to a friend, who is an ACA
instructor. My only intention was for my friend to provide subscribers
with a different perspective on the ACA program. My friend then
forwarded them to John and eventually I was asked to post his reply (I
think he tried to post himself but had trouble as he was just
subscribing).

I certainly didn't mean to make anyone furious and didn't realize
forwarding a message to someone off list was bad netiquette. I enjoy
reading PW (and I didn't mean to start one of those discussions that
make me hate to try to read rec.boats.paddle). 

I should mention that I'm not affiliated with the ACA (other than when
someone made me send them money once when I took a class - for insurance
purposes I was told). I have actually been a little more impressed with
the BCU. But, I thought the readers of this list deserved to consider
another view of the ACA. As it turns out, that view happened to come
from one of their top trainers. If it was improper of me to have
initiated this response, I apologize. 

Frank
(returning to lurking mode - it's more fun and far less time consuming)

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