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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 13:17:00 CDT
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From:         Gary Shank <P30GDS1@NIU.BITNET>
Subject:      grim reality from concordia

Thought this might be of interest...pretty scary and pretty grim
stuff     gary shank

Medtextlers;

  This is a public service announcement from your friendly
neighbourhood grad student. Today Jim Marchand mentioned getting
several crank calls each week. Funny he should mention that.

  Today at Concordia University in Montreal a professor went cuckoo
and shot five of his colleagues. Two died and three are in hospital.
The gunman was arrested and is also in hospital, but unfortunately
not with bullet wounds but complaining of chest pains nonetheless.
His name is V.I. Fabrikant.

  Well, late last week this man sent out notes on the Internet and
I got one of them. I dismissed it from my mind at once because the
name was too similar to the things he was babbling about in the note.
It's like getting something signed I.P. Nightly or Rusty Bedsprings,
to quote two ancient jokes.

  I'm forwarding his note to the whole list. Take a good look at it.
He has given us all a rare glimpse into the mind of a madman. Getting
a note from a murderer delivered to your door is a little too close
to home for my taste. I'm accustomed to nuts in my life --- my aunt's
best friend thinks she's the love-child of Edward VIII and Anastasia
Romanov --- but I'm also accustomed to nuts being mostly harmless.
I shall never ignore such things again.

Bryan Trussler.
(btrussl6@mach1.wlu.ca)
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OLD  181) From: mcgill1.bitnet@mach1.wlu.ca!canada-l
          Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:04:31 -0400
          Subj: anyone know anything about this?
Reply-To: Canadian Issues Forum <mamut!CANADA-L@MCGILL1.BITNET>
From: "Tom W. Loughlin" <mamut!LOUGHLIN@FREDONIA.BITNET>

   I received the below message and thought I would cross-post it to people
on this list to see if anyone knows what this night be about.  I cannot
vouch for its accuracy or authenticity.  This is simply an information probe
to see if anyone in academic Canada has heard of this issue.  Any leads
would be welcome.


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Message-id: <EB52DE2E60007C30@Vax2.Concordia.CA>
X-Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Dear Colleague:

The events which I want you to tell about are so outrageous, that one should
see it to believe. There will be several mailings with facts and documents.
I have little time left because on August 25 I will be in jail for contenpt
of court, so I need to do the mailing really fast. I have no time for editing
so everything will be mailed exactly as it was distributed originally
in Montreal.

I raise question of "scientific prostitution". The main difference
between scientific prostitution and "honorary authorship" is that in the first
case a completely bogus scientist, not capable of doing any research, hires
somebody from developing countries or USSR by using governmental grant.
This someone does research in which the parasite supervisor is included as
co-author. The more publications this parasite accumulates, the greater grant
he gets, the more people he can hire, the more publications he gets, etc.

M.N.S. Swamy is Dean of Engineering at Concordia, and classical example of
such parasite. The second parasite of same kind is T.S.Sankar, who is President
of Canadian society of Mechanical Engineering. I have included him in 35
publications, in which he did not understand a word. For as long as I know
him, he has not written a single paper himself.

I have filed a lawsuit against these two parasites, and since they have
nothing to say about the merit of the matter, they filed a motion to put me
in jail for contempt of court, this way they can get rid of me, and I shall
not be able to fight the battle. I need your help. Speak up. The rector's
e-mail address is pgreco@garnet.concordia.ca.

Thank you for your support, V.I. Fabrikant



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   A list of bibliographic citations followed.  Sorry to trouble anyone if
this isn't anything but paranoia.

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