The flamewar that sputtered and died

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I never heard anything louder than the silence from inverarity, anthonyjfuchs, tealterror0 and the rest of the gang since I published my review of a review. It seems I'm likely to live a quiet life from now on.

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My relationship with inverarity had already collapsed before this review, thanks largely to anthonyjfuchs, and Inverarity's implicit support of him.

I am glad to have your approval for my review, but you do it too much honour. it was thrown in as it was, a first draft; it is full of spelling mistakes and dangling propositions, and at least one argument I had promised to develop - the difference in context between the slaughter of Black Kettle's band and American war crimes in the Philipines forty years later - was not in fact developed at all. But I am a historian - one of the worst insults inverarity. ever threw at me was his claim that I didn't know how to write academic prose and had no idea what peer reviewing was - and when put under pressure I can and will produce history.

Your comments have also sugggested to me a number of other points, but if I ever write them, I will probably do so as an LJ post - they would be too long for a simple answer. But thanks for writing this; it is comforting to have an intelligent person's public approval.