Jonathan Morris wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
Paul has not AFAICS specifically stuck up
for the KX gates whatsoever - as he says himself, he was involved in
the development of their predecessor, the Mk1 slim gate. If you search
the archives you'll see that these new KX gates have not got a good
write up (I've no idea if the gates FCC has used on the GN are the
conventional Mk1 or the newer model as used at KX).

I think if you search the archives you'll see that I talked about it
before with Paul C, hence the 'not again' comment. I was led to believe
that Paul had been more involved than he was, but as I wasn't talking
in a professional journalist capacity (I am not working 24/7), perhaps
I didn't try and establish the real facts as hard as I should! Slap my
wrists by all means!

However, I am not having a go at Paul about the gates. I am not sure
why anyone should take a comment so personally - I didn't think he
designed or built them, nor installed them. I have used newsgroups
since the early 1990s and it's all about discussing things and sharing
opinions. People do, as a matter of course, disagree - but it's never
personal.

Jonathan

I certainly didn't intend to suggest you were posting in your capacity
as a journalist! I didn't realise, as there were no clues in the
thread, that you and Paul had discussed this before.

The only point I was trying to make about Paul - and I've never met the
guy - is that he has put his head above the parapet and declared his
allegiance - well, the organisation he works for at least - and is thus
more liable to having people assail him for said organisations
failings. Others on this groups are, to some extent, in the same boat,
but perhaps because of his visibility he's more likely to be on the
receiving end. I don't know the specifics of why he unsubscribed from
utl in the past (I could search the archives but it really doesn't
interest me that much), just a vague notion that the hassle wasn't
worth it. It would be a shame to lose him from utl, he is one of many
great contributors that makes this newsgroup worthwhile.

Anyway I'm rambling, and given that I would have had no idea what a
newsgroup was in the early '90s I think it's probably time I stopped!
All I'll say is I look forward to future discourse with you and many
others on matters capital transportational here on utl.