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From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
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Subject: Re: The accusations GWS(from fh, #2)[proof?]
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Date: Sun, 10-May-87 01:35:56 EDT
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Let me stick my nose into this discussion briefly. I have known Paul Koloc
for almost 15 years. He isn't what you would call "ordinary", but neither is
he any of the other things that people have suggested. He is a brilliant
plasma physicist, a dreamer, a very persuasive person, an iconoclast, and
very consistent in his outspoken beliefs. I don't happen to share many of his
political or religious beliefs, and I probably don't share many of his
beliefs about the ability of technology to save civilization, either. But I'm
very glad that he has the energy to focus on trying to implement his beliefs,
and I'm glad that the system has room in it for people who are as unorthodox
as he is. 

The last time I saw him face to face was probably 8 years ago; he looked more
like Ken Thompson than like Lyndon LaRouche.

Regardless of what you might think of Koloc, I can assure you that nobody
is going to change his beliefs with the kind of amateur ad-hominem that I
have seen lobbed at him on the net. He's got many years of experience at
deflecting much stronger attacks than you folks can muster.

Brian Reid