Re: Bear, a Magdalenian test case

On 2008-09-24, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

On Sep 24, 8:57 am, Adam Funk <a24...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm sorry to say I haven't really been paying attention to your work
until recently.  Have you got a website I can read to catch up?

Why don't you start with the 900+ postings in the thread "What is
etymology?" (which currently appears under the subject line "Open
letter to the Google Company")?

I was hoping for a catch-up summary.

How can you both be oblivious to Franz's years of posting, and also
claim not to be a troll?

I'm *aware* of his posting history; I just haven't been paying
attention to the content until recently. Furthermore, if he referred
me to a website, that wouldn't involve any extra posts here to bother
you.

Everyone knows you think Franz is a crank, but AFAICT he's not doing
anything evil such as promoting racial or religious intolerance --- so
*at worst* he could be a harmless crank. Why don't you just ignore
him? Do other people not have the right to read his ideas because you
don't like them and him? Any books you'd like to burn too?


Incidentally, one reason I recommend using a good newsreader is that
(unlike Google Groups) you can configure it to score posts up or down
according to strings in the headers, so the ones you're interested in
get brought to your attention and (if you want) you never even see
posts that are from people you don't like or crossposted to groups you
don't like. In some cases, you can even prune entire branches of a
thread tree below posts from certain people. I'd be happy to assist
you with slrn in news.software.readers, and others there could also
help with that one or other news clients. I believe in the flip-side
of freedom of speech: your right not to read any posts you don't want
to read.


--
Pengo is having second thoughts about his years working for the KGB.
(Stoll 1989)
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