Register: RIAA secret meeting a hoax.

[John Young]

Has anyone seen one of the full messages from the source
of the meeting story other than Tony Smith, me and one other
party which was cc'ed on mine? That's not to say Tony got the 
one I got -- he has not answered my inquiry to him yesterday.

There are fascinating parts of my message that haven't come
to light -- yet. We'll publish all the messages with the tracking
headers we've got it if we can prove the information is false. 

Which Tony Smith didn't do beyond being, apparently, buffaloed 
by disclaimers that are standard smoke for shenanigans, at 
least as far as his retraction went. Could be he's blowing smoke 
to cover his own looking more closely at the matter.

Hal's Finney's critique was pretty good, but I assume it was
based on the information that has been made public. Tony Smith
didn't report stuff in the message I got, again not that we
got the same message. Nor did he report the results of a
follow-up from his source if he asked for it.

What we have done with a bit of technical tracking and matching
time data is get within one or two boxes of the source, ID'ed an 
unusual browser type, the operating system, some other yadda 
log file stuff.

Fingering the source is the last thing to do, and then only if the
episode was rigged by RIAA or other alleged attendees.

No need to beat up on Smith, there are so many blandly
verifiable stories published that it's refreshing to see one that
remains disputably interesting.  Sorry to see his retraction
just when the topic gets interesting.  Hope he digs up more
on why the story was spread rather than duck the spin
control.