Re: The Psychology of Responding to Crackpots

From: Acme Diagnostics (LFinezapthis_at_partpostmark.net)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: 9 Jul 2004 02:19:18 -0500

Bryan Olson <fakeaddress@nowhere.org> wrote:
>Peter Olcott wrote:
> > I have a bachelor's degree in computer science
> > and a BSBA degree. I graduated in the top ten
> > percent of my class. I am a patent pending inventor
> > of several different finite automata, and the author
> > of three computer languages. I have an IQ that
> > is equal to the average M.D. which exceeds that
> > of the average PhD.
>
>Peter brought up credentials and *that's* what he has?
>
>You can read about one of Peters languages at:
>
> http://www.google.com/groups?selm=3A1CAC7E.6DDD78EC%40uswest.net
>
>
> > and you are a guy pretending to be Gottlob Frege
>
>Ah, well the inventor of "Lucid" also posted under the names
>"IAMYHWH" and "GOD".
>
>
>http://www.google.com/groups?selm=1998052319203100.PAA03498%40ladder01.news.aol.com
>
>
>Was it just a joke? Do a little surfing and see just how
>seriously Peter takes himself.

Good google work. Reinforces my analysis based on completely
different criteria (and other's as well).

I'd say we've easily passed a newsgroup standard for impreaching PO.

Larry

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