Pat, I like it. Thanks for the 'new word' (01)
Jack (02)
Pat Hayes wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Allow me to suggest that we refrain from responding to such obviously
> nonsensical and vacuous expressions of institutionalized ignorance as
> the recent postings on this thread. My response, after some cursory
> checking to verify that the claims are indeed as nonsensical as they
> sound (in this case, for example, the fact that the world of Thomas,
> Ballard and KFI is entirely self-referring and self-contained, with
> no connection to any scholarly or published work for the last 20
> years; and that if its claims were even partly correct, it would by
> now have put Oracle out of business) is to simply create an email
> filter to auto-trash such stuff. Arguing with these people is like
> arguing with creationists about evolution.
>
> Let me propose that we adopt the term "ontospam" for this kind of
> input, in order that we can all save one anothers' time by using it
> to categorize such inputs quickly and precisely. It is pretty easy to
> recognize, see for example
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DennisThomas.
>
> Pat Hayes
> (03)
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