Sacha writes

Having said, when Judith and I left
the group and Janet stopped posting, that you felt you'd lost 3 friends,
you've said bugger all to any purpose to support that remark.

What I think I said, and certainly what I meant to say, was that 3
people I had regarded as friends turned out no longer to regard me in
the same way. I disagree with you on many things, one serious, most
trivial, but that is not a reason to break off a friendship, and I would
certainly not have tried to hurt you. But you made clear, so it seemed
to me, that anyone who disagreed with your approach to la Puce could not
be your friend, and I don't see any point in pursuing lost causes.
--
Kay