nobody@rahul.net says:

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Gannett Rochester Newspapers

Fuck Gannett.

My, thats really constructive. Mr. Nobody is concealing his identity for good reason -- he's got nothing intelligent to say. .pm

On Wed, 25 Jan 1995 nobody@rahul.net wrote:

sorr@eznet.net wrote:

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To whomever: I'm a reporter at the daily newspapers in Rochester, N.Y., researching a story on the recent spate of IP-spoof hack events. Supposedly a toad.com address was used by a person who broke into the San Diego supercomputer center a month ago. What's toad.com? I got your name from a web search that found an old communique. Can you be any help? I'm simply trying to reconstruct what happened. Steve Orr Gannett Rochester Newspapers

Fuck Gannett.

I'm afraid that `nobody' is imperfect. This reporter, who probably knows little about the Internet or any of the issues under discussion except what he has read in the press, has posted a presumably sincere request for information. He is *asking* to learn -- at the precise moment when serious threats to our freedom of expression are mounting in force -- and you answer by spitting in his face. Believe me, those who wish to shut us down and shut us up will be happy to talk to him. And, nobody, the article he writes will help to shape the popular conception of what this net is all about; and that conception, in the end, will determine its fate. So I hope that someone else on this list will favor him with a politer and more informative answer to his question. Charles Bell