Before this gets out of hand, no one on PaddleWise or otherwise should be fully identified in the way Kasia was. Nor should we even engage in open forum speculation about a person's existence or not unless some real evidence came up and was germane. People like me and Matt Broze (to name a few of us) are more public figures and our ID is in our SIG and other places. It's because we are considered sources of information and freely give it and are available. But no one else should be fully IDed unless they wish to do so themselves. As for public speculation about the existence of someone, it should not be done without darn good evidence. We had a case years ago of someone posting something to the nyckayaker listserve that was sexually provocative, said in the voice of a woman inviting males to..well do certain things. But email to the address got returned as undeliverable and when one or two of us found that out, we reported THAT to the list. In that case it was clearly someone being bogus and provocative. I knew exactly who it was because I know him well but I didn't "out" him or confront him. I just let it go as his being sophomoric once again. There were a zillion reasons why Kasia may have desisted from further statement of her position regarding commando camping, reasons that I would have surmised well before making a leap of logic to say that she was bogus. My first thought was exactly the one she now stated...i.e. she had had enough. But she could have been off on a job assignment or sick or on vacation or abducted by aliens. I think that Kasia's take regarding PaddleWise is wrong but I certainly can understand why she feels that way especially after the public speculation about her existence followed by the full-scale revelation of her particulars in terms of employment, phone number, etc. Kasia, apologies. I think I am speaking for a lot of us. Kasia must decide for herself whether she wishes to stay on the listserve or not. I think it is worth sticking around...there are a lot of positive things to learn from messages and discussions that make the life of any paddler on the water wiser, safer and more enjoyable. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 12 2000 - 10:44:55 PDT
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