Engaging with academics/specialists from outside the Voynich community

[Mark Knowles]

I sometimes ask questions to academics, but lately I have had more success if I manage to phrase my question without mentioning the VM. 

Also, I have grown more cautious about encouraging people to contact "outsiders". Some of the more prominent academics in areas relevant to VM research regularly have to fend off deranged theorist types, and I can imagine that this becomes tiring after a while.

I agree if I contact people I don't tend to mention the Voynich, at least not initially. The academics that I have had contact with don't seem to have had to fend off any deranged theorist types, but maybe that depends on what one's line of enquiry is.