Maybrick..where are we?

[doris]

Doris!
Well put...and I am in full agreement with you.
Although the diary has polluted JTR studies since it arrival in the 90's, I still have to admire the person/persons behind it. I would love to be able to pull something like that off. ( thats of course if it is a fake)
It is a great mystery and intresting sidebar in its self,and if one day JTR is finally named once and for all, and with no doubt, then at least we have another mystery to explore.

Thanks.

As I said I think it is an amazing document, Iam certain it is fake but I would love to see some hard facts attesting to its lack of authenticity.

doris

[doris]

I have a Metriaclima estherae which is, Iam fairly sure, stuffed with young. She is a young fish and so going nearly a month without feeding is having an adverse effect upon her.

So ill is she with not eating that she has a bad case of fin-rot, normally when my cichilids suffer fin rot they get better when removed fromamy display tank to one of my hospital tanks.

But this estherae's fin rot is now a livid red colour, she is the first gravid estherae I have ever had, Iam perfectly happy to set up yet another hospital tank, with filter, new gravel and all the other things necessary for a new tank. But is there any kind of mediacation I can use to sort out her erubescent tail?

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doris

ah, oh dear.
Iam afraid that I have 3 monitors attached to my PC and quite often I have several browser windows open at the same time.
I inadvertantly posted some malawi cichlid stuff in this website, and asked some fish people about the ripper diary.

sorry

[Chris]

I inadvertantly posted some malawi cichlid stuff in this website, and asked some fish people about the ripper diary.

Thanks for the reassurance that I wasn't going mad.

Please do tell us what the fish people think about the Maybrick Diary.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI)

[doris]

haha. the fish people opinions are probably no worse than people here who know what they are talking about.

Is Paul Feldman really dead?
If that is the case why?
Iam sure in his book he said he was educated in the late '50s, so he must have been way too young to die of being old.

poor chap, he did have the proverbial bee in his bonnet about the diary but I enjoyed his book.

doris

oh I forgot to mention, the weekend after next Iam off to whitechapel again to run between the C sites with a stopwatch. Any casebbok mebers fancy meeting for a spot of lunch or dinner in the frying pan or a pint in the ex jack the ripper pub, its present name eludes me.

[The Grave Maurice]

I dunno. Given your erratic postings today, you might want to lay off the pints for a while.

[Hunter]

Excellent comeback Chris.

Wasn't that McCarthy breaking in Mary's door with a portly Abberline looking on at about :30 in the video?

I knew there was something fishy going on in Miller's Court.

LOL

[doris]

I have found an old casebook thread about Mr Feldman dieing. Poor chap. I enjoyed his forceful style of research and writing.

The article made him out to be a cigar smoking, whisky drinking mans man. Just what I imagined him to be!

Poor bloke.

doris

[caz]

Well, quite.

Suffice it to say that - as I have been telling you all along - there is no way that Robert Smith could own the copyright unless the authorship of the diary were known. But thankfully that claim seems to have been dropped now.

Eh?

It was your claim, Chris, that Robert was claiming to own the copyright, therefore he must know who authored the diary.

Thankfully you must have realised just how insane that sounded and dropped it as a lost cause.

You can tell the rest to Robert. I'm sure he will be most amused.

But if you are claiming that the diary is not a special case and has therefore been protected by copyright all along, and will continue to be protected until at least 2039, you would presumably put anyone quoting extensively from it, without the appropriate permission, on exactly the same naughty step as you are putting Robert.

At least that's good to see - an even-handed attempt to protect the rights of your modern forger and his intellectual property from the real villains.

Love,

Caz
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[Chris]

It was your claim, Chris, that Robert was claiming to own the copyright, therefore he must know who authored the diary.

Of course I didn't say anything so nonsensical. I said that it would be impossible for him to own the copyright in the diary - as he claimed he did - if the identity of the author were unknown.

And of course, there's no doubt he did claim to own copyright (you have just quoted one of his copyright notices!), and you made the same claim yourself on this thread:

http://forum.casebook.org/showpost.php?p=124771&postcount=36

But as I said, judging from your subsequent posts, that claim has now been dropped. That being the case, surely enough has been said on this subject?