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>From: trivedi@rabi.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
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Subject: Re: An apology to Mr. Krishnaprased (was re: Godel's Incompleteness Thm)
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In article <1992Apr23.164131.15250@watdragon.waterloo.edu> wlfong@logos.waterloo.edu (Philip W. L. Fong) writes:

PF:
>              An Open Apology to Mr Thirunarayan Krishnaprasad
>              ================================================
>Recently I posted a request for reference to introductory text on Godel's
>Incompleteness Theorm.  You are one of the people to whom I would like to
>express my gratefulness for the helpful information you have provided.
...
>Today, I read an article <1992Apr22.124607.11418@husc3.harvard.edu>
>in COMP.AI.PHILOSOPHY written by Mr. Mikhail Zeleny,

Here is what Mr. Zeleny wrote, highlighting that Mr Krishnaprasad, to whom
the following is addressed, is at a Computer Science department:

MZ:
> : You might want to consider a career change.  Although not a single one
> : among my students in the Harvard Extension introductory logic class
> : professes to "work in logic", none among them have failed to understand
> : "the gory proof in Enderton".
> :
> : On second thought, the department name in your address explains everything.
> : >[...]
> : I am crossposting this to sci.logic, so Herb Enderton can enjoy it, too.

I am not as polite as Mr Fong. If straight talk makes you uncomfortable,
please hit "n" now!

This guy, Michael Zeleny, is a completely immature idiot. I personally
know a few friends who have considered suing him and Harvard for attacks on
them (posted from a Harvard address using Harvard's computer resources) and
stand ready to actually do so should that behavior repeat itself. Probably it
will; if so, Mr Zeleny is about to become more famous than he possibly can
with his intellectual achievements. 

Here, I would only like to say that I find it in extremely poor taste that
Mr Zeleny, who apparently has nothing to do besides sitting at a COMPUTER
terminal all the time blabbering on various topics and name-dropping
("Herb Enderton" above, "I once challenged Alonzo Church" somewhere else;
the usual occupation of insecure second-raters), would attack someone for
being in a Computer Science department, someone who apparently had done him
no harm.

I feel sorry for Mr Zeleny's "Harvard Extension" students but then many
of us have been cursed with assholes for professors. 

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