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Just for the record, here is Steve Farmer's slanderous post in full:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dear List,

Our Hindutva mail bag once again overfloweth. Michael and I spare the
List most of it, but sometimes a beauty is sent to the List that is
worth sharing, at least in part.

Here are a few choice bits of an unsigned note (which we don't ever
release straight to the List) of someone who joined the List this
morning to send us a series of obnoxious posts.

Thewriter begins:

> --- In Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com, Steve Farmer <saf@...
> wrote:

>> Remember the Vedic Foundation's webpage on the dates of when the
>> "Aryans" arrived in India -- 1.972 billion years ago?
>
>> http://tinyurl.com/du4kq

Our anonymous poster responds:

> There is NOTHING about "Aryans" arriving in India in the webpage you
> linked.

The Vedic Foundation webpage tells us that the "Aryans were the
original Indian race" and further that "Indian Civilization has
unceasingly existed for 1,972 million years as the fully develolped
Ganges civilization," so I guess I did make an umwarranted inference
here. I guess they arose from spontaneous generation from the loins of
Mother India without entering from evil foreign parts.

One more gem from the same note, defending VF claims of second
millennium dates for the Mauryan dynasty, including Ashoka:

> Lets be fair and ask the question, "what evidence exists to prove that
> Chandragupta Maurya is contemporary of  Alexander?

Right, Chandragupta belongs back there in the first half of the second
millennium with Ashoka and the "Buddh", as the Vedic Foundation tells
us.

You can see why posts like this normally get a quick "delete".

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