L. Detweiler's recent article on the RISKS of confusing an online identity with a potentially knowable physical one are quite interesting, if hypothetical. I would be interested in hearing of situations where this practice has actually occurred. If any RISKS members know of any such incidents from first-hand experience, please share them with the readership. Unfortunately, I think he really believes that the cypherpunks mailing list has been dominated by a small cabal who have been using multiple identities who talk with each other on the list in order to enforce concensus and to suppress disagreeing positions, namely his. It just ain't so. Therefore, to set the record straight I feel I ought to make the following public statement: I, Eric Hughes, have never posted or communicated in any name other than my own. I can personally testify that I am not the same as any of the other people listed at the end of L. Detweiler's post, and I can testify from personal experience that Arthur Chandler, Hal Finney, Tim C. May, and Nick Szabo are all different people. I also decline to answer, point by point, the numerous defamatory innuendos made by L. Detweiler against the members of the cypherpunks mailing list. Might I also observe that none of the statements are specific enough to actually count as accusation, but merely as general slander? Eric