From: <netmail!tmp@netcom.com> !?!?!?!?! detweiler this, detweiler that!!! why does everyone keep calling me `detweiler' when my name is `tmp@netcom.com'?!! i am just a good cyberspatial citizen trying to build up reputation under a new name, and it doesn't help that just because i i use the word `detweiler', you throw me in your kill files. ...................................................................... ........................... If tmp@netcom.com is what you say & think you are, then I say that is what you must be, and how you should be considered. If you are trying to build up a reputation under a new name on this list, I should think it would be best to post only upon those subjects which are relevant and pertinent to the interests of those who subscribe to it, without continuing to draw attention to, focus upon, and emphasize the inappropriate associations to the inimitable detweiler and the impressions which his personality has made upon everyone in the past. If you are not so ignorant after all and have serious contributions to the subjects which are of mutual interest to others on the list besides T.C. May, Eric Hughes, and Perry Metzger, surely you could present your thoughts&ideas so that everyone who reads the message could think that it was also relevant to them as well, addressing the subjects at hand without implications to the that trio of personalities on your list. Since you have read the FAQs on the cypherpunks and have been on the list awhile, you must be familiar with the philosophical stands taken on a number of subjects, and therefore what kind of responses you might expect from a particular attitude/discussion on any of them. Surely if you post in a civilized, serious manner on subjects which are important to yourself which could also appeal to others, you could leave the image of detweiler behind and move on to other, more important subjects. It is true that your recent postings have not brought out the best in everyone, what with the spitting, cursing, and identification with private body parts . I do think, however, that if you were to converse on a higher, more rarified intellectual level, everyone would settle down, ignore the unfortunate association with L.D., and forget the misconception they have of your pseudonymous personhood. Blanc