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- From: tke@shep.att.com (Tom Epstein [415])
- Subject: New Net Acryonyms - Was: Re: New Physics, etc.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.161605.19600@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Sender: tke@shep (Tom Epstein [415])
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- Organization: Bell Laboratories
- References: <C1GEpL.4H7@well.sf.ca.us> <1993Jan26.164128.13733@rchland.ibm.com> <C1H3nF.58q@apollo.hp.com> <1k436cINNfe5@emx.cc.utexas.edu> <1993Jan27.080927.13352@news.unige.ch>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:16:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.080927.13352@news.unige.ch>, afzal@divsun.unige.ch
- (Afzal Ballim) writes:
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- |> In article <1k436cINNfe5@emx.cc.utexas.edu>, ethan@emx.cc.utexas.edu
- (Ethan T. Vishniac) writes:
- |> |>
- |> |> In cases like this the request for appropriate references
- |> |> is doomed to failure, but making the request makes a point
- |> |> so....
- |> |>
- |> |> How about CARP?
- |> |>
- |> |> Cite Appropriate References Please
- |>
- |> How about CRAP?
- |>
- |> Cite References And Proof
- |>
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- Both seem to be winners here. A kudos each to Messrs Ballim and Vishniac.
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- How about this:
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- In cases where claims are unreferenced and the responding party is merely
- suspicious that there is something fishy about the original poster's source,
- use CARP. Example:
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- naive@gullable.edu > What about the proof of the CIA cover-up
- of the JFK / Stalin connection?
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- sci@anywhere.org > This sounds fishy - CARP.
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- On the other hand, there may be reason to suspect that the poster has a particular
- agenda or is a nutcase or for whatever reason appears to have no regard for facts:
- In such cases, use CRAP.
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- bogus@paranoia.com > I have inside knowledge of the CIA cover-up
- of the *real* source of AIDS: the Vatican!
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- sci@anywhere.org > There is certain air about your statement - CRAP.
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- Tom Epstein
- AT&T Bell Labs
- Allentown, PA. USA
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