From: whitaker@dpair.csd.sgi.com (Russell Whitaker) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 12:05:04 -0700

nym@netcom.com tmp@netcom.com

Bryant was at liberty to say that the user accounts "tmp" and "nym" were the same person.

I noticed that both tmp and nym mentioned in one of their early posts that they had read up about cypherpunks in the archives at soda, or some such, and that it was ok to launch right into the discussion, since he/she was up to date with the issues. This was followed, of course, by the usual long and boring happy horseshit. I also noticed a common net phenomenon: since Sue D. Nym appeared from his/her name to be female, some men were more likely to come to his/her defense when he/she was flamed. This reminded me of the blurb I read in Wired (bad magazine, I've since stopped subjecting my eyes to the green print on red background) about men using names like "Janet" trying to sweet-talk lesbians on IRC and eventually finding out that "Karen" was also a man. tw