Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / April 2005

Retic Postings and SPAM

"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from mediocre
minds." - A. Einstein

    There have been multiple accusations that the postings of H. E. Retic
are SPAM. The writer's postings are carefully constructed so as remain
within the commonly accepted rules concerning SPAM, to wit:

1. Postings of essentially identical material shall not be made to more than
eight Newsgroups. The writer has limited his postings to seven Newsgroups.

2. Postings of essentially identical material shall not be made more
frequently than every 14 days. The writer's posting are separated by a
longer time span.

3. Postings shall be reasonably close to the topic to which the Newsgroups
is dedicated. My postings are closer to being on topic for each Newsgroup
than are most of the postings within that group.

4. The postings shall not be used for commercial purposes. They are not.

5. There shall be no alteration of the header material of the postings.
While the postings are made under many different E-mail names, however AOL
provides for multiple user names and permits them to be altered at will.

    None of the writer's actions constitute SPAM as it is currently
defined. The accusations that the writer is a SPAMMER can reasonably
considered to be the slanderous behavior of sick minds. My postings are to
de facto public newsgroups which, as such, cannot limit their postings to
material that agrees with the majority viewpoint and still retain their
legitimacy. That type of censorship is legitimate only when done by
moderated groups. To avoid this censorship, the writer has made use of AOL's
useful capability of allowing user name changes. (It has been alleged that
such changes are the characteristic of a "crank". They are not, they are the
response of any reasonable individual whose ideas are being suppressed.)

    The writer concludes that the strident protest against the writer's
postings can only result from fear, otherwise why wouldn't they just be
ignored if the content were thought not to be valid. After all, there are
many more foolish postings than mine made to these Newsgroups without
evoking complaint. The only reason for the complaints would seem to be that
the complainer is not upset by the fact the posted material is "wrong", he
is upset by the idea that they challenge what he has been taught and he may
be forced to "go back to the drawing board" and relearn his physics.

    Even more sinister is the possibility that the complainers know that
their science is defective and wish to shield it from question from students
of the subject. Such questions make it much more difficult to indoctrinate
students with the "one true faith" which must not be questioned. It should
be noted that the complainers have not attempted to answer any of the basic
questions which have been raised, instead they have resorted to
vilification.

    The source material for this posting may be found in "Gravity" (1987),
"The Einstein Hoax" (1997), and "Corrections to Residual Errors in Special
Relativity (1999) located at
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