response 6 of 26:

Jan 18 04:13 UTC 2004

The interesting thing is that in than item, it was Jan who discovered it first
and it was he who was clearly really upset by it.  He told Valerie about it
and she posted in that item, and sounded at least as if she herself WASN'T
upset about it at all.  Even mildly amused by it in fact.  But something
happened in the 24/48 hours after he and she posted in that item.  Did Jan
tell her that she should be more upset about this item than she initially was?

Maybe all of this speculation is unfair, and they have their own rights to
think what they want to think about the motivations of the people who
contributed to that item.  But to take one's anger about an mnet item out
on grex seems strange, so its hard to not think about these things.

I think Valerie owed a clearer, better explanation of why she did what she
did.  Maybe she has even provided one in the staff cf or something.  In
any case I think if Jan wants to avoid further discussions and
speculations such as in this item, that  he himself could provide a clear
explanation of Valerie's motivations and thinking if he wanted to.  After
all, if anybody's talked to her about it, he has.  

It is also worth pointing out that Valerie greatly curtailed her grex
participation well before this, she had not been a particularly regular
contributor to Agora in some time and I can't remember the last time I saw
her on Party.  So I'd bet the reason she left wasn't entirely this item,
but then again if she won't talk about it, what are we supposed to think?