On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Andrew Dalke wrote: > I don't know the full chain which lead to that comment, but the source looks > to have a posting on CCL, on the question of IUPAC naming:
Looking through the CCL thread, I got it wrong: > Sent to CCL by: "Tobias Kind" [tkind]|[ucdavis.edu] > > > Hello Michel, > actually the name was already posted back in 2006 and 2009. > 1) sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.chem/2006-06/msg00154.html > 2) darkhammer.multiply.com/journal/item/223 ... > http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.graphs.html#CHIR > If I wouldn't know better I would say that looks like a typical Uncle Al > question, well it was :-) Searching for '"Uncle Al" chemistry" finds quite a few hits. It doesn't really clue me in though, since I decided to stop reading after finding: http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.chem/2006-06/msg00231.html This response illustrates as well as anything why I've never understood why people take Uncle Al seriously. Not that this behavior on Uncle Al's part is anything new -- he's been promising us the kg-sized diamonds for a decade, and his paranoid political rants have achieved near-legendary status. Andrew [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
