In Reply to: I don't get it posted by Old and Confused on 09 January 2004 at 08:23:39:
: I've read the postings from Nigel Foster and Philby over the last few months. They plainly hate each other. However, when I read their postings they seem to both express an adverse opinion of IBM in relation to it's integrity and in it's dealings with our pension fund. So why aren't they allies rather than enemies? Please explain it to me chaps.
Philby is clearly more mysterious but his posts are measured. So I checked for his first. Strange this, because I distinctly recall him supposedly exposing "an IBM double agent" in 2000 called Babbler - never forget a name like that because both Philby and Babbler appear in my joy the Bird world. Now the interesting thing about Babbler (Philby's name for him) was that he was positing as "e.m.ployee" and somewhat foolishly he had placed his real id as his e-mail id... so he was known and he was an IBM employee of some very particular repute. So the post vanishing sometime is very interesting indeed.
So Webmaster, what happened to the Philby/Babbler correspondence. Has there been censorship here and if so by whom and why wasn't it made known at the time by you?