Re: Long threads, tactics
From: W. Dale Hall (mailtowd-hall_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 10/15/04
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:39:27 GMT
I'm just teasing here.
No math.
These aren't the droids you're interested in.
Move along, now...
James Harris wrote:
> If you look over the thread where I've been working on another paper
> you'll see a good reason for creating new threads.
>
I'll say! You've been positively inundated with replies! I'd find
somewhere else to post, too, if my articles drew flies like that!
> That one is now coming up on a 100 posts, with a lot of them coming
> from people who spend a lot of their time on Usenet trying to obscure
> what I'm saying.
>
> They do this deliberately, and it's an effective tactic.
>
Probably you aren't attempting to imply that people usually post
by accident. I rather think you're onto that old conspiracy theory,
but I'm having trouble gauging the appropriate soundtrack (Old Time
Religion vs. Old Black Magic). I settled on the first; the second
is kind of romantic, and that gave me the willies trying to fit
those lyrics.
CHORUS: Give me that old conspiracy theory
Tis the old conspiracy theory,
Tis the old conspiracy theory,
And it's good enough for me.
It serves you right, all you mothers.
Shove your algebraic structures!
I know my facts, there ain't no others.
And it's good enough for me.
CHORUS
Makes me hate everybody.
I'll beat 'em 'til they're bloody.
Just because I hate to study.
And it's good enough for me.
CHORUS
SWJPAM reviewed my paper.
They said it was their favorite.
You guys screwed me! Now you'll pay f'r it.
And it's good enough for me.
CHORUS
It will do when I am dying.
Just keep up yer God-damned lying.
And your widows will be crying.
'Cause it's good enough for me.
CHORUS
It will take us all to heaven.
Tho' the years I've spend are seven.
Is it true? You'll say "Not Even!"
But it's good enough for me.
CHORUS
Oh, I've apparently stumbled into one of those 60's era secret-agent
genre movies! I'm catching bits of dialogue:
> I've checked in various ways to watch interest in my work as it works
> its way around the world, as I move Google search results. As I post
> here Google and also Yahoo search results shift, so I watch them, and
> I can sort of map how effective some of these posters are.
>
I can see it now: the set is a big command room, dimly lit, but
dominated by a centrally hung Lucite(tm) world map (polar projection
centered at Atlanta, with big stars at Nashville, Tennessee (Vanderbilt)
and Langley, Virginia (CIA).
Old 60's style computer flashing lights and big tape drives along one
wall, and personnel walking around wearing white lab coats & carrying
clipboards. Periodically, one stops by one of the computer lights that
appears to be out, and taps it with his finger to bring it back to
working. Large display on wall bearing the title "Prime Counting to
Date", with two numerical entries, titled N, Number P <= N.
Other wall banked with a half-dozen video monitors, each holding the
face of a world leader, apparently engaged in vigorous debate with our
protagonist here in the command room, a portly gentleman wielding an
enormous Hammer in his right hand. He rhythmically slaps it into
his left as paces about the room, lecturing.
He continues to speak:
> Real mathematicians would want to get to the bottom and find out
> what's true, but these people are practiced at trying to control what
> you think on the subject.
>
He stops abruptly, and turns to face the screen of dignitaries.
The camera closes in on the face, and his voice lowers to
a low steely growl, the face clenched in determination:
> If you didn't know it's worth mentioning that Erik Max Francis, a
> person who put up an insulting but popular webpage--according to
> Google which ranks it now about 9 for the name "James Harris"--used to
> post a lot on sci.math, and by now you should know about the
> sci.math'ers who got together to send emails and censor my paper out
> of an electronic math journal.
>
A bit of side chatter, harrumphing and embarassed expressions...
> These people are serious, and they have been practicing for years, as
> have I.
>
Ah, yes. The monkey. The plywood violin.
First, we take Manhattan...
Then we take Berlin!
> As of now, I do more than move Google search results, as what I say
> gets read by quite a few people worldwide and it travels.
>
> Kids read it, adults read it. People who think read what I say.
> They're learning more about how even the math world is corrupted in
> ways they're seeing all over the world in many places, from Catholic
> priests, to businesses, to politics.
>
The excitement grows..
> They're a new generation, and they're learning rapidly.
>
The mood lifts as though a Pepsi commercial has just aired,
but only for a moment.
> And what people arguing with me say, travels.
>
> The words weave their way out from here, and I can watch the war as it
> progresses around the globe, in waves, as attacks and battles play
> out.
>
> It's a fascinating struggle with me on one side and a dedicated group
> of people on the other, and they're not stupid people.
>
The faces on the wall are in shock!!
OH
MY
GOD!!!
THEY'RE NOT STUPID PEOPLE!!!!
Now, the background music builds, a slowly gathering marching theme,
while the protagonist continues:
dum, dum, dum, dum, ....
> By myself I have had to slowly slog through in what is basically a war
> of attrition, and part of that war is moving on when a thread gets
> clogged up by these people.
>
The level mounts, the tempo increases a bit ..
DumDumDumDum...
> Tomorrow I'll be looking at Google search results again to see how
> they've moved.
>
Louder, more insistent:
DUMDUMDUMDUMDUMDUMDUM...
> Now, as I've put out this latest flurry of postings, they're moving on
> a day by day basis.
>
And the climax: Cymbals crashing, the brass fanfare, the choir
of angels, the whole schmear AND a bag of chipe:
TAADAAAAAAAAATADADADADUM TA DAAAA!!!!
> It's that big. The impact on the math field is like nothing that has
> ever come before, and even at the fringes, like replies from obsessive
> posters, the impact is already worldwide.
>
The faces on the wall grow pale, many break out into a visible sweat,
and a number are clearly trembling!
> It's like a growing hurricane.
>
EEEEWWWW!!!!
Hey, man, like lay off the legumes, will you?
I'm tryin' to watch this show.
>
> James Harris
Dale.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
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