On May 30, 5:58pm, Eli Brandt wrote:
Subject: Re: Detweiler's motivations Karl said:
I agree it is difficult to determine Detweiler's motivations; I've carried on quite civil email exchanges with him... but the posts from tmp@netcom.com are quite bizzare.
He's still mostly normal in e-mail. However, I think it's best to be careful what you say. I once responded to a question of his about actual instances of PSEUDOSPOOFING; I mentioned a user here who spent some time replying to himself on rec.music.industrial. His response was something along the lines of "hee hee you're a tentacle", and now look what he's doing to talk.politics.crypto et al....
I had a similar thing happen to: Detweiler sent me private email some months back, in some apparent urgency, asking my opinion on "pseudospoofing", as "a director of the Extropy Institute". I replied that I wasn't in the business - as an ExI director or otherwise - of having an opinion on everything. This seemed to really bother him. He emailed me back, expressing his surprise that I didn't drop everything and respond to his clarion call. I'm told - though I didn't find out until a few days ago - that I too ended up being listed as a "tentacle". How amusing.
Hal's analysis seems plausible to me. This whole self-reply cascade has got to be some kind of surreal propaganda maneuver.
Or a serious local loopback problem.
Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
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