Re: "When the Mill Shut Down" / Will Dockery

> George J. Dance wrote:
> 
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>> The True Melissa <thetruemelissa> wrote:
>> 
>>> George J. Dance wrote in article <1786286544>:
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure, it will still appear on other Usenet newsgroup portals,
>>> though, if so, such as Newsgrouper.org.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm replying from newsgrouper. Her post is still there,
>>> all right.
>>> 
>>> This is so silly. Do any of you have any idea how Usenet works? A
>>> web gate to Usenet is not Usenet! There's no such thing as
>>> removal of a post! All of the posts are messages being sent among
>>> servers around the world, and there is absolutely no way to go
>>> get into all those servers and delete all the copies. Of course,
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In very familiar with Usenet, by the way, after all I've been posting
>> here for over twenty years.
>> 
>> 
>>> if Will understood that, he might not overpost in the first
>>> place.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Notice how Melissa shrugs and looks the other way while Pendragon and
>> his ilk are flooding the poetry newsgroup with troll threads filled with
>> lies, misrepresentations and childish name-calling.
>> 
>> All the while calling me an "assassin."
>> 
>> 
>>> I blocked Will because his constant flood of self-centeredness
>>> was driving me nuts. That is now done, and trying to make me into
>>> one of the villains of your drama only shows how wise I was to
>>> walk away.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yet, here she is, still complaining and making misrepresentations.
>> 
>> And so it goes.
>> 
>> 
>>> I'll continue to monitor this group, in case anyone else is
>>> innocent enough to try joining. I believe it could be helpful for
>>> a newcomer to meet someone who
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Someone who will negatively influence new poets joining the newsgoup
>> from the start.
>> 
>> Got it.
>> 
>> Again, so it goes.
> 
> 
> It's interesting how she admits she continues to read ("monitor")
> aapc, and that she still posts here as well (as this post shows),
> while also claiming that she no longer has anything to do with the group
> (she's "washed her hands of it") That sounds enough like what her new
> "publisher" says about aapc,  to conclude that she's just
> taking a leaf from her "publisher's" playbook.



The original post written about Melissa, not by me but by George J. Dance, to clear up an error in attribution made by Melissa in which she claims I wrote it.

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