On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, p.daniels wrote: > On Tuesday October 7 2008 10:41:36 Rob Bayerl wrote: > >> For me, the real issue is that a prominent figure in our community has >> set preconditions before he will meet us. > > Okay, people keep saying this but I can't find it anywhere in the > original email that the guy _refuses_ to meet with us if we do not do > this, only that he _guarantees_ he will if we do. An important > distinction is being missed there. That is correct. Mike