From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)

At 7:37 PM 4/10/96, Jim Byrd wrote:

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to find the identity of -AB-. This turned out to be an alumni account at Cal Tech. The poster has never been heard from again.

This was without a doubt just a user of one of Hal Finney's remailers he runs out of an account at Caltech. (There's a tiny chance it was someone else, but it fits the description of Hal's "alumni" remailer exactly, and is almost certainly just that.)

Actually, this is not true. The poster, from rumors I have heard, was someone else with a Caltech alumni account (I don't know who). I have never been contacted by any representatives of Scientology with respect to this case. So it is apparently just a coincidence that this case involved the same system as my remailer. Hal