CCL: Requests for Structural Realism article of Prof. Scerri



 Sent to CCL by: Igor Filippov [igor.v.filippov^_^gmail.com]
 The whole thing has a feel of one organized astro-turfing campaign.
 That's the conclusion I reached after seeing so many requests sent to
 the list for a publication which was so blatantly self-promoted.
 Igor
 On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 18:37 -0500, Jan Labanowski janl%speakeasy.net
 wrote:
 > Sent to CCL by: Jan Labanowski [janl---speakeasy.net]
 > I am seeing a number  requests for the
 >
 > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628920.200-are-you-really-a-realist.html
 >
 > article that was announced to CCL by Prof. Eric Scerri. Please realize
 that:
 >
 > 1) you are sending your requests to a few thousands people rather than to
 the
 > author who announced it.
 >
 > 2) Prof. Scerri is not a CCL subscriber, so he will not likely see your
 requests,
 > i.e., you are wasting yours and other people bandwidth and time (clicking
 on the
 > [Delete] button takes time).
 >
 > If I wanted to read the article, I would just contact the author rather
 than a
 > few thousands other people who have nothing to do with it...
 >
 > Jan Labanowski
 > CCL Maintainer>
 >