miller@uiucdcsb.UUCP (01/12/85)
Welcome back to the net Paul! I hope it is to stay this time. I had hoped to delay this discussion until SOR #5 was done, but comments are starting to get out of hand & I feel some preliminary comments by me are in order. It has been charged, often and loudly, that SOR 1-4 contain out of context quotes. Usually these charges are simply stated & expected to be taken at face value by the readers. Often I feel the person making the charges has not even read the original sources. I *carefully documented* all quotes in the pamphlets so that people could read them; I see it is easier to make false allegations than to do one's homework. Others, on the other hand, do speak with more authority & have done more work than to simply trumpet "out of context, out of context". For those, I can and will demonstrate that *all* of the quotes I used are appropriate. I have 2129 lines of reviews saved so far off the net & intend to answer all of them *at the end*. Do not mistake my silence now for lack of an answer. As I previously wrote: if I got bogged down now in answering all of the challenges to the earlier pamphlets, I'd never get the later ones completed. Unless your sole purpose in life is submitting articles to usenet, you should be able to identify with that. So to summarize: SOR 1-4 contain many quotes, all of them referenced, so readers can look up the original text & decided for themselves. Those who don't chose to do so have no right to complain. Those who do feel they have legitimate replies should wait until they hear my legitimate counter-replies, and not conclude *a priori* that the argument is so simplistic that a few lines of challenges will send me fleeing off into the sunset. A. Ray Miller (A. is for Allan, since you asked) Univ Illinois