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From: Jim Burns on 25 Apr 2010 13:02
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master1729 wrote:
> Jim Burns wrote :
[to Transfer Principle]
>> Why not bury the corpse of the project and move on?

> Surely , you must understand ,
> you cannot simply defend everyone.

It wasn't my idea to "defend" everyone, anyway.
It was Transfer Principle/Lwalker who rejected
as irrelevant the explanation that some posters
just could not be reasoned with, no matter
how good your intentions are.

My own thought on the defense of cranks is that,
for any particular poster, it is either
not /necessary/ to defend them or it is not
/possible/ to defend them.

The posters populating sci.math and sci.logic
are extremely diverse in opinion, enough so,
that one really needs to work hard at being
unreasonable enough to chase away /everybody/.
Even JSH receives some serious attention --
not the adulation he feels he deserves,
but such is life.

If, hypothetically, a poster were sufficiently
obnoxious to be able to discourage everyone
from responding to their ideas, then no amount
of "defense" on the part of some third party
is going to change that.

Jim Burns

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