Emails from cranks?

[PScientist]

I got one today from someone who intends to write a "high fantasy/science fiction novel" with lots of detailed questions about time travel.  (I guess I should probably just write back to politely say that asking an experimentalist about wormholes in string theory is not likely to yield much more than he has already gleaned from Wikipedia.)

[spork]

Sometimes you're not paranoid because they really are out to get you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/technology/ebay-cyberstalking-with-cockroaches-and-bloody-pig-face.html.

[AmLitHist]

I feel a little left out.

The only crank emails I get are from Admin and my students.

[mamselle]

I didn't realize we had the creators of 《Hamilton》on the fora!

;--}

M.

[apl68]

I got one today from someone who intends to write a "high fantasy/science fiction novel" with lots of detailed questions about time travel.  (I guess I should probably just write back to politely say that asking an experimentalist about wormholes in string theory is not likely to yield much more than he has already gleaned from Wikipedia.)

Probably figured you'd be a great source of impressive-sounding technobabble.

[nescafe]

I get the odd crank emails, usually vaguely related to something I work on and sometimes more random.

The worst manifestation of this, though, was the crank who came to my office hours, stood in my doorway, repeatedly demanded to know my citizenship status, and yelled about a coming civil war. I took my office hours off my faculty website and held them somewhere else on campus for the rest of the year.