[I have taken the liberty of deleting "speaker@leg.state.vt.us" and "villuzzi@leg.state.vt.us" from the cc: list, as I think cross-pollinating our list with state asssembly houses is even worse than being "assimilated" by wwwbuyinfo and e$-list.] At 2:35 AM GMT 11/6/95, Stephen Whitaker wrote:
Eating my tasty crow gives rise to another question relating to the timing and continuity of these threads: How did the first responder on the RE: 134.222.9.1, Simon Spero, reply at 10:48 pm on Nov. 4 to Anonymous' posting of 7:19AM on Nov 5? Which way is this thing spinnin?
Have you heard of time zones? The first message, from Anonymous, was sent from the Replay remailer (in Amsterdam, I recall). Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 07:20:12 +0100 Subject: lp (134.222.35.2)? To: cypherpunks@toad.com From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) 07:20 in the +0100 timezone is of course 22:20 of the previous day (Saturday) in the -0800 time zone. The reply by Spero was sent Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 22:48:39 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu> X-Sender: ses@chivalry To: Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> Looks harmless to me. However, there is increasing evidence the intelligence agencies have managed to open up a portal in time, using the tachyonic devices being manufactured by Tachytronx, of Woodland Hills. These time portals are used by Science Applications to launder money back to eras in which it was needed. One of the major remailers is located on a system called "Portal," which ought to be enough to convince anyone in these paranoic times. --Klaus! von Future Prime, whose chronotransport secrets now stand revealed