At 7:52 AM -0700 9/11/98, Trei, Peter wrote:
I, too, was suprised to find myself mentioned in one of the postings John Young has highlighted. I hadn't noticed this before, since Toto's rants were among the 50%+ of cpunks postings I marked as read without actually reading them.
As I've said, I started deleting the posts from Toto, TruthMonger, Human Gus-Peter, Linda Reed, and other totonyms about a year ago. I did this, "in toto," one might say. As soon as I saw a long rant with a bunch of odd stuff, mixtures of caps, references to Country Porn, Space Aliens, Bienfait, etc., I hit the delete button. But before this, I saw of course that we were playing starring roles in his fantastical rants. And Toto often forged our names on his rants and threats. I count this as a kind of blessing, in that any attempt to prosecute us based on our posts will run smack into this forgery issue...at least a speed bump in the process of proving in court that some text fragment was actually written by someone they claim it was written by.
The Poster Currently Known As Toto mentioned an awful lot of people by name, purportedly engaged in all kinds of nefarious activities. The same post also names Tim May, Adam Back, Declan McCullagh, Ulf Moller, Kent Crispen, and Blanc Weber. I'm let off easy, being characterized as only a 'terroist [sic] InterNet forger'. I think that this is because I once complained when someone (possibly Toto) forged a message in my name. To put it in the plainest possible terms: I have never in my life forged a message.
Yep. I expect several of us may get subpoenas in this case. Either to refute what is claimed, to support what is claimed, or just to clarify who wrote what. I plan to rely only on my memory. If they want me to try to reconstruct my own e-mail archives, currently resident on several different disk drives, some on CD-ROM, some in my gun safe, some in my safe deposit box, well, this would require much work on my part. I presume they'll pay my consulting fees for doing this work. Otherwise, it'll be just my memory. "No, I have no direct recollection of the post you mention...." --Tim May (This space left blank pending determ. of acceptability to the gov't.) ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.