At 4:57 PM 9/9/96, William H. Geiger III wrote:

In <Pine.LNX.3.94.960909125148.16761A-100000@blau.pin.de>, on 09/09/96 at 12:53 PM, Stephan Schmidt <schmidt@pin.de> said:

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I hope this one was ironic.

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The Democratic People's German Reich is fully justified in cutting off contacts with subversive radical publications in Jew-dominated nations like Holland.

As Reichskommander Schmidt points out: "The citizen-units who access ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But this one is tasteless and insulting even if it was meant ironic.

If the boot fits.......

I don't know why Stephan waited so many days to make his comment. It was my noticing that I had "collided" with his name, Schmidt, when I made my facetious post that caused me to almost immediately issue a clarification that I was not thinking of him when I made my first post. To be clear, again, I was not basing my "Reichskommander Schmidt" line on Stephan Schmidt. That was just a coincidence. As to the "Reichskommander," in our country, and on the Net, such jokes are not illegal. I rather suspect they are in Germany, either the DDR or the Western side. As to "tasteless and insulting," a matter of personal perspective. I find it helpful to call a spade a spade, and others apparently do as well. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."