Actually, if one follows Bill's public appearances closely, one may
notice that each time a different person appears under that name.
I've done some digging, and apparently "William Scott" is a bot.
Apparently, some bioinformatics grad students were trying to
determine if crystallography could be done entirely by AI. Given
"Bill's" publication record, it appears that it could.
(Also explains how those Coot builds get packaged at 4 a.m. Pacific
Standard Time.)
-- William Scott
On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Oganesyan, Vaheh wrote:
> Isn't this e-mail's topic and it's appearance contradict each other?
> It comes from William Scott's e-mail account, but signed as coming
> from Paul Emsley.
> How do we figure out who actually wrote this e-mail with or without
> control access.
> The easiest way is to assume that it is coming from Bill, he just
> decided to sign as a Paul to disprove his own point.
> On the other way, it is only 7:30 am in Santa Cruz, then it is
> unlikely to be Bill, which means that e-mail was sent by Paul.
> Worth looking at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
> Wiki page, isn't it?
>
> Vaheh Oganesyan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of William Scott
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:12 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 Wiki
>
> Most of us register on the CCP4 bb with our own names. If we say
> something stupid, it damages our reputation in front of our peers. A
> similar approach can be used for the Wiki. Control access, and
> limit it
> only to people who register with their own name and who are
> registered to
> the ccp4 bb.
>
> -- Paul Emsley
>
> Kay Diederichs wrote:
>> Anastassis Perrakis schrieb:
>>> Kay - disagreeing once was enough ... so:
>>>
>>> I share your thoughts about the wiki !
>>>
>>> However, the dynamics of Wikipedia are an interesting issue and
>>> relate
>>> to 'vandalism'.
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