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- From: dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.philosophy.tech,talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: Structure of Time
- Message-ID: <28JUL199218561752@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:56:00 GMT
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- Goofy writes...
- > These "inquisitors" have contacted to my employer and they have tried
- > to insalt me and my paper. My employment is in danger at the moment.
-
- I find this totally unbelievable (except the insult part). He is having
- paranoid delusions. Not altogether surprising, considering what we've seen.
-
- murphyg@Software.Mitel.COM (Gary Murphy) writes...
- >Perhaps this suggests you are closer to the mark than even you believed,
- >as why else would these people find your posting to be such a threat,
- >far more so than those notorious posts which catch the eyes of the
- >censor board! I've seen people on the net be barred from posting for
- >extremist (racist, sexist or just plain insensitive) opinions, but never
- >for so innocent a posting as yours
-
- Noone is suggesting this harmless (to us, not to his daughter) individual
- be barred. We only want him to post to appropriate newsgroups.
-
- > --- even with the corrected reprints,
- >you cannot even be blamed for wasting bandwidth at even a fraction of
- >the percentage as, say, "prisoner's" posts to alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
- >or even the weight of just one .GIF in any binary group!
-
- >I recommend you keep a log file of the positive comments you receive and
- >present these to your employer --- I found your postings most
- >interesting (and even wrote to you requesting digitized versions of
- >Hanna-Maria's drawings), at minimum entertaining and certainly of no
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >less 'scientific value' than the .GIF of the "Face On Mars" (anyone
- >remember the gigabytes we wasted debating Cold-Fusion-in-a-Teacup?)
-
- Entertaining he is. But sci.physics is not a forum for entertainment.
- There are appropriate groups for this guy, but he does not even include
- them on his Newsgroups: line. Do you see alt.sci.physics.new-theories above?
-
- Dave Ring
- dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu
-