Struan had been another dissenting voice on the list. A possessor of 
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wit and intelligence</A>
who suffers no fools lightly, Struan had been 
<A href="http://www.moqtalk.org/archivedata/moq_discuss/1998%20-%202002/0204/0291.html">
locked out</A>
well before I'd been unsubscribed, but he'd occasionally pop up on the list when
other members posted his thoughts, and he'd 
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come to my defense</A>
during the discussion that led to my 
<A href="http://www.moqtalk.org/archivedata/moq_discuss/2002%20-%202005/1439.html">
booting</A>.
It was important that I could trust him with this. And I did. 
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In retrospect, I don't think I'd have had the nerve to pull this off without
his support. You can be a lot braver when you have an ally.