yoshie, why should ian do anything for you since you can't be bothered to adress him with "hi ian" or type to him directly? is there some reason why you need to position yourself as asking ian to speak to the entire list or at least your imaginary group of interested others? ian should do this or that coded in this formal interrogative tone, this demand, this insistence that he must somehow muster himself up in front of the rest of the list to be called to account by you?
oh wait, is this how you're going to ally yourself with sam? sam the anarchists' marxist. heh. ange, i'm cracking up too.
if anyone hadn't noticed, ian's been posting for some months now and this is pretty much his style of intervention on the list. to find it peculiar now is ....ummmm. .... a bit peculiar.
i don't know yoshie, but i guess you won't have that many people to argue with if you inisist on othering them like this all the time.
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