On 08Nov2021 1716, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> BTW, I missed it (I was on 'hiatus') but is there anyone on here who actually witnessed/participated in the major, major flamewar about piracy in the TU?From what I've read, it blazed so long & so fiercely that a cease-fire of sorts had to eventually be declared & the topic was made off-limits by consensus.
Some of us were there, yes. My recollection was that it mainly just went
on forever, and every time it seemed to die down it would then flare
back up, and it consumed all other conversation. "They're in Canon, so
they must exist!", "But they make no sense!", "If we assume these sensor
rules, they can/cannot [choose one] exist!", and on and on.

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