From: MichaelW on
Assuming anyone cares...

Just before JSH announced his sabbatical I was ready to retire from
all JSH threads and now that he has returned it is time for me to
formally retire from the fray (excepting this thread of course). With
the deterioration of the group (accelerated by MMM but not caused by
him) and the generally poor quality (from a maths perspective) of the
JSH threads I have decided to move on.

On a positive note thanks to everyone who encouraged my amateur
scribbling; the feedback I got always meant more to me that I let on.

Some achievements I am proud of:

First up here is the thread that ran for 6 days without conspiracy
theories, abuse or cannibalism:

http://groups.google.com.au/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/e7e76869324d880b?hl=en#

For reference here is the follow up thread:

http://groups.google.com.au/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/93febd7d1ab63750?hl=en#

I believe that I proved that if everyone agrees to behave and the
abusers are kept out then a civilised and intelligent discussion is
possible, at least for a few days.

Secondly James proclaims his BQDE simplification (not a solution as he
sometimes claims) and challenged anyone to better it. My better
simplification is at the end of this thread:

http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.math.undergrad/browse_thread/thread/d5ade2378f1c67cd#

Especially ironic given James' commentary in the post immediately
before it. Needless to say James ignored my post.

Finally I actually got Amazoti to shut up for several weeks. Hint: I
asked him his age.

Regarding the current discussion: I was able to download the Java code
before Google groups stopped providing it and I can PM it to anyone
who asks (20K zip file). I can also give some inputs which break it.

Regards, Michael W.
From: MichaelW on
On Jun 18, 2:12 pm, adamk <ad...(a)adamk.net> wrote:
> I tried to send you a few links for _math_ , not
>   commercial websites. Did you report me as a spammer.?
>   Did I do anything wrong to you.?. I thought the
>   suggestions may have helped you; I have no relation
>   to any of the sites I recommended.

Sorry, I should have replied but Real Life has been intruding...

Thanks for the sites, they were interesting and I have bookmarked
both. One of them in particular is exactly the sort of thing I am
looking for. The traffic seems a bit low after this group but I won't
complain as each thread is 100% pure maths.

Reading some of the comments on other threads (as well as observing
yet another MMM swarming) I think I am not the only one ready to throw
in the towel on sci.math.

Regards, Michael W.