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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Crackpot update, New Scientist
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.010938.23868@galois.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
- References: <1gh38uINN93b@chnews.intel.com> <1992Dec14.190618.20263@galois.mit.edu> <Dec.14.18.39.47.1992.8473@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:09:38 GMT
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- In article <Dec.14.18.39.47.1992.8473@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
- > The result? A bundle of spoof messages aiming for maximum score.
- > And the index's author himself ranked number 6 in the crackpot league
- > table.
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- >Well, John Baez may be thankful his name wasn't mentioned, anyway.
-
- Hey, I need all the notoriety I can can get, so I'm going to write them
- a letter to the editor. After all, the crackpot index may be my most practical
- contribution to science so far (sad to say). Moh got his name on that silly
- hardness scale for rocks, and we all remember him for that, even though
- he probably did some more substantial work that nobody remembers.
-
- I am not sure whether I should write the letter in green ink, though.
-
- Thanks very much for taking the trouble to type that article in!
-