From: scott@tailab.org (Scott Tai)
Subject: t: Is The New Tai Rising?
Reply-To: scott@tailab.org (Scott Tai)
Organization: House of Tai
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:10:05 GMT


What follows is my long-awaited explanation and response.  Many 
readers have been hurt by this affair, and have taken it personally, 
so a flamewar is quite possibly in the works.  We do apologize to 
those we inadvertenly hurt by our postings.

As far as the false claims mentioned in a previous posting go, again 
we have only your word that they were false.  When I posted the
articles, we had every reason to believe the claims were true, and
had collected the information for several weeks from books, articles,
friends and r.o.m posters alike.  Perhaps they were wrong as well, 
but we had no reason to believe otherwise.  In any case, what does it 
matter that false claims were made?  Are you asserting the readers
of r.o.m will believe any article which contains false claims even 
after they check the situation out?

sonic@romulus.cray.com writes:
: I prefer to go under the assumption that Scott (whoever) is just 
: spouting off for the fun of it and is now (HOPEFULLY) realizing that
: actual debate can be fun, if mentally strenuous.  Of course, this 
: does not preclude insults (both blatant and subtle) but is better than 
: just insults.

You're right :)

eager@eagercon.com writes:
: Now that we have got that out of the way, how about you two posting 
: things which have some substance, rather than this silly squable.

Agreed.  Here is the New Tai Plan:

  I. "Readers, Tai Jest" or "Tai's Condensed Matter Theory"
     : Today, I find [...] one person's posts flaming the
     : group OVER and OVER again on the same points, the same
     : grounds, without change, without meaningful discussion.
      -- Tai postings will be voluntarily limited to one per day.
	 [ Others (who will remain nameless) may want to 
           consider this. ]
      -- Posts will be limited to new material or rebuttals of
         new material. 
  
 II. "The Catcher in the Tai"
     : Scott Tai [...] come[s] from the mental institution at 
     : the North Carolina State University.
      -- Subsequent Tai postings will originate from tailab.org.

III. "I Would, Tai, 4 U"
     : Yes, luckily, I can now kill all the messages related to 
     : this fool (which I will do shortly), with the addition of 
     : this nice "/T/" in the subject line.
      -- Tai article titles will be prefaced with 't: '.

 IV. "Tai Won?"
     : Curt, you're ignoring the possible cases of schizophrenia [...]
      -- We're not schizophrenic, and neither are we.

  V. "The Tai Has Come..."
     : that makes about as much sense, and probably more, than what Tai
     : has been posting here.
      -- mike steiner goes in the kill files :P


[ ObTai: It is easy to see why there is a correlation between test 
  performance and later performance in school because the teacher, 
  as a representative of standard middle-class culture, will expect 
  the same language and types of behavior as the person who made up 
  the so-called intelligence test.  The teacher will either not 
  understand the dialect that is used in class or will give the child 
  a lower mark for using "bad" language and the ghetto child will 
  before long go through life stigmatized as being less intelligent 
  and a poor student. ]


--
Scott Tai		``Living is easy with eyes closed,
scott@tailab.org  	  Misunderstanding all you see...''