FORD, I'm wanting to be very diplomatic here, but I'm trying hard to understand the situation here:

F.O.R.D. wrote:
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"Andrew,

For the record, the only war being started here is by this jackass named NOYB, who like a true coward talks his shit through a proxy server. If you read the last post I wrote to this asshole before you wiped it, you will notice that I told him to take his shit to my board or another appropriate forum where he could get his ass kicked accordingly without an uninvolved webmaster as yourself having to clean up the bloodshed. Speaking on behalf of the so called "FORD gang" and EUAS, none of us have any interests in starting wars, and were merely trying to put this cowardly asshole out of business BEFORE your board returned to the state of chaos that it was in February."

Then why did you post this message on your own board?

Posted: Sat, May 13, 2000 at 14:01:26 (PDT)
Original: NA
Posted by: F.O.R.D.

"Some pansy ass shit talking spaceproxy using sheep has invaded the Melodicrock board. Go take 'em out."

I might be reading this wrong, but isn't this an open invitation (to your website regulars) for the beginnings of another flame war on this board? If you're trying to avoid a repeat of February's chaos on this board, then why start up with the angry posts here? The post you had on your board almost seemed like a "call to arms" to the so-called FORD Gang ("Go take 'em out"), but I thought the whole point was to keep things in check (especially after the summit)? I thought it was very cool on your part to offer to take the bullshit to your board, but vulgar posts have already been deleted on this board, due to the initial shots of a flame war. Please, please, please correct me if I misread this.

I hate to think that a topic like this can cause as many problems as it has, but I'm afraid that certain statements can be misconstrued, thereby getting out of hand. More importantly, I thought a lot of us had previously learned that if you ignore the bullshit, the bullshit will go away. I personally think (and this is my honest opinion) that a lot of the readers at this board are kinda tired of the whole VH situation right now, and there's no reason to "Go take 'em out". Just let the bullshit walk away and let's wait for the official announcement. It'll happen...

Peace.