PHILIP ZIMMERMAN ARRESTED [NOT!]

[David Mandl]

> From: Stewart Brand <sbb at well.sf.ca.us>
> 
> The Zimmerman prank---I'm sure not funny for him---hardens my line
> further against anonymity online.  At its best, as here, it is an
> unholy nuisance.

People have gotten anonymous death threats over the telephone and poison
pen letters by mail.  Are you against phone and mail anonymity?  And
this wasn't even such a destructive prank!  And it was perpetrated on
April 1.  Doesn't seem like such a big deal to me.

   --Dave.