Re: arguing with idiots

[Torkel Franzen]

"Karl M. Bunday" <kmbunday@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I usually put the cranks into my kill 
> file as rapidly as they change their email addresses, but I like to read 
> the replies to the cranks because reading serious mathematicians 
> explaining errors of logic is educational.

  Surely not after the umpteenth explanation? There is very little
variation in the responses to cranks, just as there is very little
variation in the postings of the cranks themselves.