Since I seem to have been misunderstood on at least two lists now, let me forward this. --Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:45:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com> Cc: Glenn Hauman <hauman@bb.com>, Seth Finkelstein <sethf@MIT.EDU>, jseiger@cdt.org, jberman@cdt.org, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Re: White House "kinder, gentler"-CDA/censor empowerment meeting Lizard has it right. My post was meant to be satire. I should have been more clear. In fact, a good friend of mine sent me this message:

Declan, remember how I promised you I'd let you know as soon as I thought you'd been in Washington too long, so that you wouldn't turn into a beltway hack?

This is the red flag. Get out.

Apologies to all. In the future I will label all satiric posts as -L18, meaning those who are under 18 will probably not get the joke. By labeling my posts in this manner, I can ensure that they will be indexed up by search engines that will in the future only index properly-labeled pages. I can also ensure that users of Internet Explorer will remain able to read my scribbings, since the next version of IE is going to ship with RSACi turned on as a default. I will thus do my part to ensure a childsafe cyberspace, free from inappropriate material and bad jokes of all kinds. -Declan On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Lizard wrote:

Um...I think Declan was being humorously sarcastic. (What was that thread a few days ago about how irony doesn't work?) What's frightening is that his sarcasm comes perilously close -- some might say overlaps -- posts made in all apparent sincerity by others.