L. Detweiler:
Give specific evidence to support your claim or retract it.
Uncle! I retract my claim! I'm not me! My abject apologies for being a traitorous criminal pseudospoof, deluding even myself in the process! (Very good VR tech they've got here!) Detweiler, I don't know what is wrong with you, but there are quite a few cypherpunks nearby in Colorado; many of them know know many of us. Several of us whom you have explicitly or strongly implicitly accused of being "pseudospoofs" have violated their own desire for privacy and sent you their phone numbers. Some post them publicly as a matter of course. (Have you returned the favor? Does anybody know Detweiler's phone number?). You seem to lack all conception of how completely silly your accusations look from the perspective of a Bay Area cypherpunks meeting, with all us "tentacles of Medusa" overfilling a largish meeting room, jokingly speculating about who will be detweiled next. With less altruism than some fellow "tentacles", I have decided I don't trust you with anything more than I already give out by posting my True Name to the net. In hindsight, even my True Name is probably too much trust with people like you in the world, who would subject cultural practices they do not understand to the extreme violent retribution consequent of something being a crime or treason. If I may engage in some detweiling myself, a long overdue return of volleys: The damage that can be caused by the demogaugic stalkers of the world is vastly greater than can be caused by swaying a few peer pressure prone readers here and there with "pseudospoofing". As if a centralized news media, politic polls, etc. don't already sway follow-the-crowd types to a degree vastly surpassing anybody's capabilities on the net. The desire to keep track of identity may sound innocent enough, but behind the rhetoric of "accountability" looms the bloody claws of violent politics, the quest to create a centralized identity enforcement agency, a net-based panoptic extortion racket with a potential for tyrrany surpassing anything the world has has yet seen. Do you doubt Detweiler favors such an outcome over the dreaded "pseudospoofing"? I'll be happy to forward Detweiler's posts in imp-interest on the matter, assuming everybody's not grown long since tired of these rants. And with that bit of my own detweiling I will myself retire from the field, lest detweilosis be contagious. Nick Szabo szabo@netcom.com