At 9:14 pm -0400 on 8/24/97, MackeralMonger wrote:
Hettinga, once a respected member of the financial crypto community,
Since he works in neither finance, or crypto, *that's* a laugh...
has been turned into pathetic figure by Platypus-Downey Syndrome, which has aggragated
Aggragated? oh, right. Agraphia.
the Money Fever that he had been successful in controlling up to this point. Now he has been reduced to spamming the Internet with MLM Prayer-List chain mail, in a desperate attempt to "Make Money La$t" at a dollar-a-pop. Once a secular figure known as the Father of eCa$h, Hettinga is now a quasi-religious Cyhperpunk Cult of One leader known as the Dollar Llama.
Oh, well. Just as long as you heap me with money instead of scrod, er, scorn, and make the wolves go away from my door, what you say about me in print doesn't bother me as long as you spell my name right -- and you attribute my quotes, of course. :-). Cheers, The arrogant wit bender (How's *that* for agraphia. Unscramble the anagram, and, for extra bonus points, get my True (middle) Name.) ;-). ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/