Re: The Psychology of Responding to Crackpots

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_aurigae.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:00:14 GMT

In sci.logic, Acid Pooh
<poohonlsd@yahoo.com>
 wrote
on 29 Jun 2004 03:00:38 -0700
<d7ba1f79.0406290200.3f493541@posting.google.com>:
> Kenneth Doyle <nobody@notmail.com> wrote in message news:<Xns95177649E2A5Enobodynotmailcom@61.9.191.5>...
>> daryl@atc-nycorp.com (Daryl McCullough) wrote in
>> news:cbqdtf01855@drn.newsguy.com:
>>
>> > Now, if I can only work on my own obsession with responding to
>> > these people.
>>
>> At the risk of adding grist to the mills of the crackpots, some of my best
>> educational moments have come from lurking on threads that fit the scenario
>> you describe. Don't forget the lurkers!
>
> This is a good point, although I wonder how many lurkers we really
> have. (Thinking about it creeped me out. They're watching us. With
> their eyes.)

Well, it would be downright weird for them to be watching with
anything else. Then again:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?p=news&g=photos_highlight_fp&e=1&tmpl=sl&nosum=0&large=0&t=1088453896

which is a logical solution to a problem for those without.

>
> 'cid 'ooh 

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