Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
At 11:13 PM 5/20/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 04:23:10PM +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote: [rant deleted - bill] Speaking of power corrupting, notice how the power to speak anonymously has destroyed this poor souls brain.
Kent, I think you would find that Attila would be perfectly happy to include his map coordinates, phone number, full name and address and repeat his views to you, or to repeat them to your face, aside from the privacy considerations.
Attila's not anonymous - he's a regular poster, and has been for long enough to build up some reputation around his penname.
I'm not sure how anonymous Attila is in total. He made a comment on this with regard to Black Unicorn's anonymity a short while back. I'm not sure he's trying to hide his identity to that great a degree beyond using a nick name that some folks gave him years back. There are several things which would help you track details down... he has regularly discussed his local mormon community, the location in which he lives, and his own domain "hun.org", his position within the local mormon church, his big bore 'bike, physical appearance (300lb gorilla I think is his own description), nationality, qualifications, military service details, etc. A whois on hun.org would likely get you his phone number, or someone who would know his phone number. His primenet account would probably similarly get you info. Unless he uses aliases in real life also, and unless the details he has given us over the years are not true. (I haven't met him, though I think others have). In short I believe you picked on the wrong guy if you considered Attila an example of someone with lots to say when hiding behind strong anonymity. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`