Re: A Very Harris Newsgroup

From: Matthias Klaey (mpky_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:37:21 +0200

On 22 Jun 2004 00:14:57 GMT, kefkag@aol.com (Kefka G) wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>After a long hiatus from reading this group (over a year), I finally decided to
>check back in to see if things had changed at all. Lo and behold, it still
>seems impossible to avoid the discussions of "Advanced Polynomial
>Factorization" and "core problems in mathematics." Truly astounding...I
>started reading this group when I was a naive freshman three and a half years
>ago, still struggling with the basics of calculus. Even then the Harris-babble
>was so clearly rubbish that it hurt me. And here we are now, I've almost
>finished an entire math/physics degree, and James Harris has still not learned
>a damn thing about mathematics...it really boggles the mind. One can't help
>but wonder what he might have done if he put all of his energy into actually
>learning math instead of trying to convince people that he already knows
>everything.
>
>But what I'm more interested in is if anyone has actually gone through and
>figured out the ratio of Harris-related posts to other posts in this NG. The
>phenomenon of James Harris has gone on for so long that I feel like someone
>should be cataloguing it for posterity's sake. Anybody up to the task of
>writing "A Brief History of James Harris" or something along those lines?
>Perhaps a short bio, a list of "accomplishments," some of his juicier posts,
>etc. I'd do it myself, but I haven't been on this group that long, so I don't
>really know how far back this goes (or how it started, which is the real
>question). Or maybe something like this exists already - if so, perhaps
>someone can post a link?
>
>I feel a limerick coming on...
>
>On sci.math this tired fool would not spare us,
>Rude, obnoxious, and trying to prepare us,
>Based his math revolution,
>On faux cubic-solutions,
>As we know, this fool's name was James Harris.
>
>Then again, perhaps we should just ignore him. Encouraging him like this just
>gives him exactly what he wants - attention.
>
>Sorry,
>Eric

Try out this way:

Put Harris in your kill filter, plus *everybody who replies to his
posts*. This will get you a very pleasant newsgroup very quickly.

HTH
Matthias Kläy 

-- 
www.kcc.ch

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