On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Mark Goldes wrote: > >I wrote to Bill asking if he had banned me, as I do not believe he > >accepts the possibility of our magnetic devices or superconductors > >being genuine. > > > >He never answered.
Message never received. Eskimo.com appears to be having more and more troubles over the years. A few months back they were vulnerable to heavy DOS attack because of a linux bug that nobody knew how to fix. But they provide shell, and they don't charge for bandwidth! > >Glad to see this one. Perhaps, he changed his mind. Or it might have > >been a technical problem. > > I am sure it was a technical problem. He never bans people because he > disagrees with their scientific assertions. He has only banned a few > people who were extremely disruptive, rude, or flat-out crazy. > > I expect your message never reached him, probably because of an > e-mail filter. I have had the problem often, lately. Eskimo does have fairly draconian RBL filtering, though I doubt that yahoo mail would ever end up on it. Or... perhaps Bill B. is just BLAMING eskimo, yes, while randomly turning peoples' subscribtions on and off? That way he can unsubscribe anyone for long periods whenever he wishes, first after having ACCLIMATED the subscribership to unexplained outages yes! :) (Mad scientist email technique #47, scatter the word "yes" at the ends of random sentences. And it's way too late at night to be answering large volumes of email. yes.) Example: Holding entire cities hostage via a Giant Invisible Umbrella yes http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/X-ray_20high-voltage_20invisible_20umbrella (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3138 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
