"David T. Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim wrote: > > >Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > .... > >> > >> Googling will not turn up private, off-list emails or telephone > >> conversations. Also, does google.com have a facility for searching > >> chat room traffic? > > > >By "chat room" Lott is referring to Usenet, and, yes, Google Groups > >lets you search Usenet. Even if Lott is counting emails as part of > >the discussion, it still is not credible. Almost all responses are > >posted, and emails tend to be more polite, since there is no point in > >grandstanding. > > Not on any controversial issue!
I didn't say that emails were all polite, but that they were more polite than Usenet postings. > Some months ago I posed a homepage with a criticism of "documentary" > maker Michael Moore. Hmm, I notice you include the bogus claim that Japanese Americans have a homicide rate half that of americans. This is not so: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/archive/japan/msg00002.html -- Tim
