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Why Does Randi Ignore My Emails?

The Professor said:
It would seem a little misleading if you were to say .... For answers email here ... and then not answer them?

If the email flood is so great, then why post the email address in the first place, giving the L@@K that you are really answering them?
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Various email addresses are published for various reasons and that due popularity you should't publish it since you cannot guarantee reply is big idiocy.
 
The Professor said:
It would seem a little misleading if you were to say .... For answers email here ... and then not answer them?

If the email flood is so great, then why post the email address in the first place, giving the L@@K that you are really answering them?
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Try emailing that question to your congressman.
 
First point: James Randi probably gets a few hundred e-mails a day, seeking his time and attention. If you want a PERSONAL response from him, it might help to send him information that he would actually find interesting.

Second point: If you're that desperate to get a response, perhaps you have to ask yourself why.
 
Exactly ...WHY?
Why does randi refuse to answer emails?
Why publish his email address if he has no intention of answering them?
 
Nah, you just have to be sane, and make sense.

Try it sometime.
 
The Professor said:
So I guess you need to be a M O D boy to get some attention :)
Makes perfect sense to me now :)
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I have received a personal response to every email I have ever sent to Randi. I am not now, nor have I ever been officially associated with the JREF in any capacity. I am not now, nor have I ever been a moderator or administrator of this forum. I have not ever met Randi in person. My emails to him were of little consequence. Still, I received answers.

Kinda makes you think...
 
The Prof is obsessed with emails! Be it Randi's mine,magicseen's whoever!

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I guess we're stuck with
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now,seeing as Magic Cafe have booted him :D
 
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Why Does Randi Ignore My Emails?




Perhaps he has met or heard about you at some time.
 
fuelair said:
Why Does Randi Ignore My Emails?




Perhaps he has met or heard about you at some time.
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Never met him but he has included a previous email of mine in one of the SWIFTs so I'm thinking he found it interesting enough.
Anyway, the answers were already given in the previous page:
1. He does get hundreds of letters a day (Randi's words).
2. The subject about which I've recently written to him about was already addressed by 20 others (according to Randi).
3. Another subject I've written about, Randi just doesn't care to engage in any kind of dialogue with. He says that if he wishes he can apply for the $1M but other than that, no thanks.
Check out this guy:
http://www.orenzarif.com/

filthy rich from what he does and has tons of media presence if he wished to apply for the challenge. But why should he?
 
The Professor said:
So I guess you need to be a M O D boy to get some attention :)
Makes perfect sense to me now :)
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Tsk. Because B follows A it don't mean A caused B. He answered my emails before I was a mod.
 
The Professor said:
Exactly ...WHY?
Why does randi refuse to answer emails?
Why publish his email address if he has no intention of answering them?
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Let's see: When I write to him, and I'm civil, and have something relevant to say, I get a polite response. In many cases, his response to me is informative, and usually uplifting.

On the other hand, if I write and my e-mail is simply a rant, regardless of the subject matter, it gets ignored. So, I don't send rants.

Just so you know: If you write him an e-mail and it interests him, you'll get a response. If you simply write to bleat about how "unfair" Jeff Wagg and others are being, you'll get ignored.
 
You've missed the whole point!
I Expect him to ignore My emails ...
Why does he ignore other members here who don't challenge for the million?
It's just rude or deceptively calculated to give the appearance of accessibility.
 
The Professor said:
You've missed the whole point!
I Expect him to ignore My emails ...
Why does he ignore other members here who don't challenge for the million?
It's just rude or deceptively calculated to give the appearance of accessibility.
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He didn't ignore emails. Perhaps you should read it all again.
 
The Professor said:
You've missed the whole point!
I Expect him to ignore My emails ...
Why does he ignore other members here who don't challenge for the million?
It's just rude or deceptively calculated to give the appearance of accessibility.
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Did I miss where you challenged for the million? :rolleyes:
 
Er, that one wins. Admire Randi as I may, I realize he puts spell-, grammar- and coherence-checkers on hold and, as an old fart a gentleman sporting all his years in an admirable fashion,, another gent of some years, I've been online long enough to dismiss any claim that a response come from The Guy At the Center as something to follow, unless special knowledge said it came from The Boss.
 
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Sigh. Join the club. :(

I too have emailed Randi things I thought were exceptionally interesting, that I thought would make very good material for him. I would never have dared written at all to one of my biggest heroes had it not been very, very worthy of his time. That's the measure of my respect for him; I'm nervous even sending an email to him.

And he didn't reply.

Granted, most of it was on Sylvia Browne and I guess there is no point publishing something on her in SWIFT if she has not been in the news lately. And if it concerns a prediction she made five or six years ago that was proven amazingly wrong two or three years ago and I have only just discovered it now, it's not "fresh".
 
The Professor said:
See. It does happen, as I've said!
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No one ever denied it. But we've specified the where and why.

Since when does James Randi -- or for that matter, anyone -- owe anyone else a response to an e-mail? Why the hell are you and others so rude as to expect and demand a response to an e-mail when one may or may not be needed? Frankly, I find the whole idea insulting. Hell, if we're going to go with that attitude, are we now going to insist that every call from a telemarketer be answered, and lengthy conversations be engaged in regarding vinyl siding? Give me a break!

News Flash: People living real lives have real commitment they must fulfill BEFORE they answer every little e-mail that comes their way. They are deserving of respect for those commitments, and they deserve the time necessary to meet them. They are under NO obligation to respond to me or anyone else when I take the time to contact them with something I think is "important," "funny," "interesting," or "clever." If I choose to send something, that's fine, I suppose, but that's my choice to spend my time doing so. No one else is obligated to respond to what I send out.

The remarkable arrogance of some people that their EVERY WORD warrants a response, that their every action is somehow critical to every situation, is no longer amusing, it's sad and pathetic. Seriously, someone is in need of therapy, and soon.
 
I've once send an DVD with the Anderson Cooper episode with Robert Lancaster to the Foundation. Got a nice email with thanks from Jeff. Why? Because I asked them in the coverletter to confirm with me once they got the darned thing, the Danish postal service being what it is.

Very nice.

Had I NOT asked them to confirm, then I would not have expected a response. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE BUSY AS HELL!!!!!!

They do not exist for my sole pleasure (Ok, having a magician of Mr. Randi's caliber at my beg and call would be supercool) or to pamper my ego. Nor yours.
 
the_fire said:
i've once send an dvd with the anderson cooper episode with robert lancaster to the foundation. Got a nice email with thanks from jeff. Why? Because i asked them in the coverletter to confirm with me once they got the darned thing, the danish postal service being what it is.

Very nice.

Had i not asked them to confirm, then i would not have expected a response. Why? Because they are busy as hell!!!!!!

They do not exist for my sole pleasure (ok, having a magician of mr. Randi's caliber at my beg and call would be supercool) or to pamper my ego. Nor yours.
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Bingo!!!
 
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