At 12:14 AM 6/3/96, Adam Back wrote:

Tim May <tcmay@got.net> wrote:

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At 11:53 AM 6/1/96, Adam Back wrote:

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Tim May <tcmay@got.net> wrote: [...] Maybe the "make.money.fast" description was a poor one...what I meant to imply is that the book is being advertised widely (I've seen half a dozen announcements of it),

Ah .. I misunderstood, the ad is being spammed. We have a truly awful news feed which gets around 2 weeks of lag, at time of posting that was the only one I'd seen.

And I thought my newsfeed was bad! Do an Alta Vista (or DejaNews, etc.) search of "The Truth Machine" and you'll find about 300 articles on Usenet about it. However, about 95% of them are from jhalpe@ix.netcom.com, the author of this media event novel or from ivypress@ix.netcom.com, his vanity publisher. (Actually, maybe Ivy Press is not a vanity publisher. Maybe Ivy Press is what might me dubbed a "Cantwell and Siegel publisher.") And the groups this was posted to....mama mia! This is why I was irked that this spam was leaking into the Cypherpunks group as well. But no harm done, and it demonstrates another example of how the Net is being used for such advertising. Imminent death of the Net predicted--news at 11. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."