--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > ...and I have never > > > > > > been nominated for Usenet Kook of the Year. :-) > > > > > > > > > > By Sherilyn, one of her more desperate moves. > > > > > > > > I wouldn't worry about it that much. You only > > > > got about 40 votes, mainly from your "fans" on > > > > alt.meditation.transcendental and sci.skeptic. > > > > > > Um, I never worried about it at all. But > > > apparently it was a big enough deal for you > > > that you actually had to go count the votes. > > > > Nope. Someone on sci.skeptic kept track. They were > > quite amused by you. > > > > I presume they were all "angry and usually dishonest > > critics of TM," too? :-) > > In general, yeah. Non-angry and usually honest critics of > anything don't indulge in ad hoc web-sites, ad hominem > attacks, etc., on proponents of what they are critical of.
I think he was referring here to the denizens of sci.skeptic generally, not the Web-site owners (although like two of the latter, the sci.skeptic folks had no firsthand knowledge of TM, and were even less well informed second-hand).