One FROM the archives

Cut and pasted directly from halfway down the following web archive
page

http://www.astronomy-chat.net/NGC_68...us_930994.html

Simply compare the sender's email address and the email signer's
identity in that post.

Then notice how Ian Hill Smith completely agrees with Martin Nicholson
in this thread, being the only person to do so.

http://www.spacebanter.com/showthread.php?t=109418

for reference, pasted from

http://www.astronomy-chat.net/NGC_68...us_930994.html

we have

"Date: 20 Jul 2007 08:58:32
From:
Subject: NGC 6888 - Crescent Nebula in Cygnus
On Jul 20, 3:09 pm, Anthony Ayiomamitis
wrote:
Dear group,

I have spent the past couple of evenings pursuing the stunning emission
nebula NGC 6888 in Cygnus with mixed results. Although successful at
capturing the plethora of stars in the region (nearly 8000 stars in my
image), I was partially successful in acquiring the dim portions of the
Crescent Nebula.

For last night's result based on just under five hours total exposure,
please seehttp://www.perseus.gr/Astro-DSO-NGC-6888.htm.... all
comments and suggestions welcome!

Anthony.

Do try it in Hydrogen Alpha - great fun and lots of fine detail to
tease out.

Martin N

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/index.htm"


Now doing such a thing is a Martin Piers Nicholson, ukastronomy above,
debate tactic, quoting something irrelevant like this to rubbish the
other guy(s) hoping the facts of the issue will then be ignored.

However, he usually has to resort to such tactics when he knows he is
losing his precious debate.

Whereas here, I am just taking the ****.

Just reading eJAAVSO 96 will show the way of it.

Do not reply to this generic message, it was automatically generated;
you have been kill-filed, either for being boringly stupid,
repetitive,
unfunny, ineducable, repeatedly posting politics, religion or off-
topic
subjects to a sci. newsgroup, attempting cheapskate free advertising
for profit, because you are a troll, simply insane or any combination
or permutation of the aforementioned reasons; any reply will go
unread.


Boringly stupid is the most common cause of kill-filing, but because
this message is generic the other reasons have been included. You are
left to decide which is most applicable to you.


There is no appeal, I have despotic power over whom I will
electronically
admit into my home and you do not qualify as a reasonable person I
would
wish to converse with or even poke fun at. Some weirdoes are not
kill-
filed, they amuse me and I retain them for their entertainment value
as I would any chicken with two heads, either one of which enables
the
dumb bird to scratch dirt, step back, look down, step forward to the
same spot and repeat the process eternally.


This should not trouble you, many of those plonked find it a blessing
that they are not required to think and can persist in their bigotry
or crackpot theories without challenge.


You have the right to free speech, I have the right not to listen.
The
kill-file will be cleared annually with spring cleaning or whenever I
purchase a new computer or hard drive.


I hope you find this explanation is satisfactory but even if you
don't,
damnly my frank, I don't give a dear. Have a nice day.

On Jul 7, 7:17*am, advicegiven wrote:
Cut and pasted directly from halfway down the

Your behavior is a directed attack against a single individual. This
is not astronomy news. You are wasting bandwidth, and the hard disk
space of thousands of people and institutions worldwide. What is
more, you are violating the charter of these newsgroups. If you want
to reply to something this other poster posts with appropriate
content, please do so.

In case you want to get aquainted with the rules of this polite
society:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/

David A. Smith