I just assumed someone on one of the lists would have been in phone
   contact with JYA at some point or would have enough shared experience
   with him that they could recognize him/the way he writes in an email.

   On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Andrew Hornback
   <[1]achornback@gmail.com> wrote:

     Okay, I'll take the troll bait here...

     How would you go about verifying that his account has NOT been
     hacked?

     --- A

   On Oct 15, 2015 8:18 AM, "Michael Best" <[2]themikebest@gmail.com>
   wrote:

   Is there anyone who can verify JYA's accounts haven't been hacked? I
   was assuming this was a joke until the tweet with the picture of 1997
   logs. [3]https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/654626113742893056

   On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Shelley <[4]shelley@misanthropia.org>
   wrote:

     On October 14, 2015 9:32:30 PM John Young <[5]jya@pipeline.com>
     wrote:

     Cryptome for sale with access log files from 1996 for $50,000,000.
     Authentic Cryptome Archive for $10,000.
     <[6]https://t.co/38zMD3KlpS>[7]https://cryptome.org/donations.htm

     More evidence that the site has probably been compromised, yet
     again:
     Excerpt from 2003 subpoena, via
     [8]http://cryptome.org/cryptome-log.htm:
     ----- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE -----
     Hash SHA1
     CRYPTOME
     COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
     AFFIDAVIT
     I, John Young, administrator of Cryptome, hereby declare that logs
     of Cryptome are deleted daily, or more often during heavy traffic,
     to protect the privacy of visitors to the site. Cryptome does not
     own or know the location of the machine which hosts its virtual
     private server under a service agreement with NTT Verio. There are
     several international mirrors of the files on Cryptome, all of
     which, to the best of my knowledge, delete logs to protect privacy
     of visitors.
     Attested and communicated to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by
     this PGP-signed statement published on Cryptome, 6 January 2003:
     [9]http://cryptome.org/cryptome-log.htm ---
     —————
     Logs going back to 1996?  That'd be perjury.  I don't buy it.
     Domain is not for sale at the registrar and transfer is still
     prohibited.  Fyi.
     -Shelley

References

   1. mailto:achornback@gmail.com
   2. mailto:themikebest@gmail.com
   3. https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/654626113742893056
   4. mailto:shelley@misanthropia.org
   5. mailto:jya@pipeline.com
   6. https://t.co/38zMD3KlpS
   7. https://cryptome.org/donations.htm
   8. http://cryptome.org/cryptome-log.htm
   9. http://cryptome.org/cryptome-log.htm