Re: My brainstorming and crank label

jstevh_at_msn.com
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: 13 Feb 2005 09:17:26 -0800

gowan4@hotmail.com wrote:
> Well, JSH has said before that what he likes to do is post
speculations
> and see how people react. I don't think people in general object to
> speculation being posted. What people object to is how it is posted.
> JSH might say something like
>
> "I have an idea that might be of interest in connection with the
> factoring problem. Here it is ... What do people think?"
>
> That might get replies that attack but probably there would be more
> disinterested replies than JSH usually gets. But how does he
actually
> post?
>
> "I have found an earth-shaking discovery that solves the factoring
> problem."
>
> He actually doesn't even have a method that works all the time, much
> less well enough to be of interest to experts and he hasn't tried it
on
> any interesting examples. That dogmatic egotistical prating is what
> puts people off and doesn't encourage peaceful discussion.

It is provably a solution to the factoring problem, and the proof is
now posted.

But, let's say I were wrong. So what?

I think most readers probably don't feel this great motivation to not
only reply insultingly to me, but to do so obsessively.

And by obsessively I do mean obsessively, day after day after day after
day.

Besides, this is Usenet, where freedom of speech is supposed to be the
predominate more.

No matter how you rationalize, you will not come up with a cogent
reason for posters trying to control my posts on a medium where control
of postings is against the very heart of that medium.

James Harris

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