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I, too am now thoroughly confused. George did not write 11066.... Lu Abel did (as George has already stated in 11090). George did write 11064 and 11068 and, as far as I can see in these - as in all his posts - he was his usual exemplary self in citing who said what before dealing with the questions raised.

I have to wonder if Joel Jacobs is having a software problem and is getting the emails re-numbered in some arbitrary fashion? Too, I have an email client (Eudora) which 'snips' quoted sections as I scroll through the list of emails and only gives the full quotation when I click on a specific email. I wonder if Joel's email client is playing similar tricks without him realizing it?

Geoffrey Kolbe

At 05:34 15/12/2009, you wrote:

I've spent quite a bit of time looking at George H's post from all angles trying to arrive at a reasonable response, and I've concluded that only a limited response is best. I will just wonder why, as a highly trained scientist, George could publish something that would not make clear whom he was quoting in the original? Or not tell the us that what Lu Abel was saying was his quoting of George.
 
The bottom line is, I've read and re-read his explanation, and still can't figure out who is saying what, in what context, and when. In the second section of Post 11066 George clearly named Frank Reed as the person whom he was quoting as he debated what Frank was saying. Why George didn't do the same in the first section of that post, is mind numbing? If you are finding it difficult to understand this, I will not be surprised. ;-( Please ignore it.
 
Joel Jacobs