Re: Posting Personal Information in This NewsGroup (WAS Re: Autism epidemics: beginning of the end?)

In article <eoi7e1h2ebktl7g2m3b4sd84da4kl184il@xxxxxxx>, <Rich.@.> wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 05:20:26 GMT, wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David
>Wright) wrote:
>
>>In article <g2t2e15p6mn4ia47nmphk72pqv511js8v1@xxxxxxx>, <Rich.@.> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:51:42 -0400, "Happy Dog"
>>><happydog@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>><Rich.@.> wrote in message
>>>>news:q8o2e152qhj4u4n8mje5879h5lie1vt5h9@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:24:51 -0400, "Happy Dog"
>>>>> <happydog@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Bull***. In any case, who's asking you to reveal anything about
>>>>>>yourself?
>>>>>>I'm happy to send my money any place you like if you win. So, how about
>>>>>>it?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Try rec.gambling or some other trailer park. This is
>>>>> misc.health.alternative. Take it to email.
>>>>
>>>>It's completely on topic.
>>>
>>>A private bet is on topic?? Wrong group. Wrong trailer park.
>>>>>
>>>>> What idiot would believe that you or anyone else would honor some
>>>>> anonymous internet bet?? No need to answer.
>>>>
>>>>I'm not anonymous. Neither's DW.
>>>
>>>In that case please post your full name, address and phone number so
>>>your true identity can be verified. I am of course being facetious but
>>>hopefully my point is understood.
>>
>>That depends. Is your point that the purpose of this n.g. is
>>primarily to hold your voluminous, endlessly repeated screeds
>>about Jan's nonexistent amalgam recovery?
>
>No. My point is that it is stupid to put out personal information on
>the internet especially in this newsgroup where there are stalkers who
>are all too willing to intrude into one's personal life to harass and
>do harm.

There is that. However, neither HD nor I suggested that Mike put his
personal info into the newsgroup, and I stated publically that if he
mailed me, I wouldn't post the info. So if I did, what happens to my
credibility? I'd have no reason to sacrifice it for such a small
wager.

>If you find my endless repeatedly screeds objectionable I wonder why
>you don't just kill file me.

Because they aren't your only postings. If all you ever did was
refute Jan, you'd have joined her in the killfile long ago.

>My posts are more for the uninitiated
>lurker/reader/poster than it is for the regulars here.

I realize that. But you don't need to meet her every posting with a
refutation. Anyone with an IQ higher than that of a sea slug (which
doesn't include Jan, but does include most other readers) will have
figured her out pretty fast. Her postings get more demented every
week; anyone who takes her seriously, especially after seeing even
an occasional refutation, is too far gone to be saved anyway.

>I have made an
>effort to help the regulars here by changing the subject title (which
>you did NOT do here but I will) so that they don't have to read it.

Um, exactly why is this helpful?

>>I think a little diversion into the question of thimerosal causing
>>autism, and whether or not the proponents of this theory really
>>believe it enough to put money on it, is quite welcome.
>
>Great. Then you are an idiot also.

Thanks. Love you too, especially your resistance to using insult
where none was offered and none is called for.

>It is quite easy for an individual to take a bet and then not pay up
>especially if they are anonymous.

Yes, it is. But if Mike takes the bet and doesn't pay off if he
loses, you don't think I'd remain silent about that, do you?

>Also just because someone does not take a bet does not mean that they
>don't really believe the theory. They may not want to reveal their
>private information. They may not be betters.

But if they refuse to take it and make no convincing explanation of
why, that's interesting information.

>> You'll notice that "mike" is not willing to accept the bet.
>
>See above.

Ditto.

>> I think that's a
>>lot more interesting than the 10,000th article about Jan (who is not
>>only in my killfile by author -- so is any article with "jan drew" in
>>the subject line).
>
>So kill file me and any article that has "Jan Drew" in it.

Killfiling by character strings in the body is extremely slow on my
interface, or I long since would have done it, thanks.

>Somehow I think you won't but will continue to unwittingly enable Jan
>Drew by criticizing those who decide to take her to task for her
>misinformation, lies, and hypocrisy.

As if Jan needs to be enabled. I don't notice any positive changes in
her behavior as the result of your actions. I'm not trying to stop
you. I'm merely irritated that you are unable to see any value in my
exposing mike's hypocrisy.

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