James Donald does not exist. We can stop the flame war now. Trying to be a good net.citizen, I sent "him" e-mail to correct one of "his" line- noise-quality opinions quietly (so he might shut up) - has no one else tried this? It bounced, failing to resolve host which does not usually happen here if the site is real. So I submit the following as evidence that "he" does not exist:
jamesd@netcom.com is in the header sometimes and doesn't bounce. Why he has a bogus address he didn't explain adequately. (This was in a private exchange in addition to the public one. I deleted cypherpunks and he didn't notice for a couple messages until I pointed it out. If you want the whole collection...)
- no living human being could hold such opinions and simultaneously operate his vital organs (i.e. the level of intelligence implied by his "opinions" is even lower than that necessary to support breathing and digestion)
HAHAHAHAHA ROFL!
- posting pseudonymously to cypherpunks and engaging them in spurious flame argument might seem like fun to someone hostile to the anoynimity agenda and a way of generating a case that "see, anonymous/pseudonymous use of the internet angers even cypherpunks"
Thought of that... Reasonably good if so. Too far from 1Apr though. OK, now how about that Pascal vs. C war... (Ahhhh... I didn't mean it!) sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Senior Consultant 513-865-9599 FAX/LIG 513.496.5223 OH Page BA Aug94-Feb95 OO R&D AI:NN/ES crypto By Buggy: 2464 Rosina Dr., Miamisburg, OH 45342-6430 Firewalls/WWW servers ICBM: 39 38 34N 84 17 12W home, 37 58 41N 122 01 48W work Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.17Jan95