The following is one of the most humorous posts I've read in a long time. It made my day. ----------- From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) Subject: Time for me to come clean... To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 12:46:40 PDT My experiment has gone far enough. One of you has claimed that the Net entity "tcmay" (Timothy C. May, putatively) is actually "jamie" (Jamie Dinkelacker, putatively). This person has at other times claimed that perhaps Eric Hughes and Jamie are the same person, and that the Net entity "tcmay" is the "lackey of Eric Hughes." It is all getting so confusing! Allow me to clarify. I entered this list under a variety of pseudonyms, with the intent of compiling information on all of you. I have been posting under the identities of Tim May (who has actually never existed....the man behind the mask on the cover of "Wired" was a hired actor, as were the stand-ins for the personnas of Eric Hughes and John Gilmore), Sandy Sandfort, Jamie Dinkelacker, and many others. I disavow any connection to the paranoid "S. Boxx," however. In fact, I think there are only five actual biological entities on the list. Makes for some good conspiracy theories for the paranoids. Finally, I also write under the nym de guerre of "Dorothy Denning." The real Dorothy Denning is too busy grading papers for her freshman crypto class to post, so I fill in. My real name should be apparent to you all. I knew if I used it, the other four of you would not take me seriously. But now the secret's out. David -- David Sternlight When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.--Nigerian Proverb -------------- Jim_Miller@suite.com