off-topic posts (was Re: [MURG] oh that joke was from)

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:47:20AM -0700, Anna wrote:

> Dear Eugen, with all due respect, how do you determine insanity 
> from someone's post? 

He has a history of delusional postings and private communications, as well
as his personal web site.

> Is   'hacker' your patient?

No. That's why I didn't make a diagnosis. As a wild guess, I presume it's
schizophrenia.
  
> Anyway, why is he a member of this group  and allowed to post? In fact,   

That's because our list owner is either absent, or not doing his duties.

> he has been sending volumes of emails daily to my mail box and I assume to others too. 

For private mail there's filtering. No such excuse for a public mailing list.

> 
> Best,
> Anna
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Eugen Leitl 
>   To: murg at minduploading.org 
>   Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 12:46 AM
>   Subject: META: off-topic posts (was Re: [MURG] oh that joke was from)
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