Re: CONTRARY EVIDENCE (WASRe: Evide)nce!

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:59:55 +0100, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Athel Cornish-Bowden
<me@yahoo.com>:

On 2024-03-18 15:48:28 +0000, Bob Casanova said:
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:09:51 -0700, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com>:
 
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Why not run him off?  Talk about gratuitous noise, he's got nothing else.
 

Although I have him killfiled, I admit that some may find
his posts of interest; for them, "running him off" is the
opposite of polite discussion. Better to simply not see his
posts via killfile if possible, and ignore the ones
responding to him.

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I had him killfiled before, after he revealed himself as a shameless
liar with nothing interesting to say. However, when GoogleGroups
carried out its purge a couple of weeks ago I cleaned out my killfile
competely, thinking that many of the people in it were unlikely to
trouble us again. On the whole that has worked well, but there are
certainly people who need to be put back, and Ron Dean is clearly one
of them. (JTEM was the first to go, after a brief moment of freedom.)
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Most of the worst ones (AFAICR) haven't used GG, so whatever
GG did wouldn't have had any effect on them.

FWIW, I occasionally nuke my killfile just to see what
happens. In almost every case most of the original denizens
take up residence again in fairly short order. The only ones
I can recall staying out were the few that have been banned,
so except for the nymshifters they don't show up again.

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Bob C.

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 the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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