X-Message-Number: 6741 From: (hEpCaT) Subject: Peter Merel Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:38:22 -0700 (PDT) > > Message #6733 > From: Peter Merel <> > Subject: Reply to Platt > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:35:10 +1000 (EST) > snip snip... > > My comments were certainly crude, and for that I certainly apologise. > I felt, in light of the ongoing abuse of this forum by not-David-Cosenza, > that blunt words would present less fuel for his nonsense than words chosen > with more care. snip... > > Unfortunately, I rather doubt this. Your only vocal critic, not-David- > Cosenza, appears to be irrational, and no amount of reason can be sufficient > to deal with someone who has no reason. > > Peter Merel. > It's idiodic to assume that just because I took exception to the manner in which Leary was treated that I had anything to do with these anonymous posts. I did not. (Some time ago, Brian Wowk and I agreed to a truce on public discussion of this subject.) It's also incorrect to say that I am Platt's/CryoCare's "only vocal critic"; I'm not the only one that has found their actions to be reprehensible as past mailblasts will show. Peter says that the anonymous poster is irrational; I'm not prepared to speak for whoever posted the note, but as a friend of Timothy Leary's and as a cryonicist for many years, it sickens me that Timothy didn't make it into suspension and I submit that anybody who doesn't feel any remorse over what happened is not seriously interested in cryonics. This is not to say that Peter Merel et al. doesn't have some fascination with what some of us are trying to do, but he clearly doesn't have the same drive that your average run-of-the-mill cryonicist has who cares about his life and those of others. Ps- I find it a little humorous that subscribers of this list feel compelled to make large pledges to the Prometheus Project based on ludicrous make money fast posts! I am not one for outlawing anonymous postings to CryoNet as there have been some innocent ones, but perhaps Kevin could check the queue and rid the mailblast of any anonymous messages that are not strictly about cryonics. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Cosenza 1264-bit Key fingerprint = BF 6C AA 44 C6 CA 13 3F 4A EC 0A 90 AE F3 74 6D 4096-bit Key fingerprint = A4 79 15 79 D2 73 7D 3F 34 88 2E ED 93 6F 46 B1 "When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption." Public Keys available upon request And as we stand on the edge of darkness Let our chant fill the void That others may know In the land of the night The ship of the sun Is drawn by The Grateful Dead. --Tibetan "Book of the Dead," ca. 4000 BC. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6741