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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: The Old Ways - final comments
Message-ID: <1385@shark.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 17:31:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: shark.1385
Posted: Thu May  9 17:31:27 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 11-May-85 02:47:37 EDT
References: <715@decwrl.UUCP> <587@pyuxd.UUCP> <948@pyuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Summary: 

In article <948@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (alias Arthur Pewtey) writes:
>
>It is becoming apparent that the Don Black persona was more than likely a
>fraud perpetrated by DEC employees.  The fact that Don Black is the name of a
>leader of the Alabama (?) KKK, plus the fact that Ken Arndt was conspicuously
>absent (uncharacteristically so) during this whole affair (with some of
>"Black's" material echoing his style), are factors leading to this conclusion.
>Would an actual person who actually worked for DEC who actually believed what
>was said actually leave his actual name?  Nonetheless, "Black's" words are
>worth looking at for what they represent.  Some may take this as some sort of
>excuse to say "Now you see why I didn't bother speaking out!"  20/20 hindsight.
>-- 
>"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
> to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
> being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
>	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

Well, this intrigued me.  I contacted a friend at Dec, who used the online
Employee Locator Facility Database to look for "Don Black", although this
would of course prove nothing, since the EZNet allows the same kinds of
forgery of "from" information that Rich uses to put in his amusing aliases.

There are TWO gentlemen named Don[ald] Black who work at Dec; both at sites in
the continental US.  There could be others who work at other sites on the
EZNet who aren't in the ELF database; it only covers some US sites, and there
are well over 5000 machines on the Dec EZNet with an average of 25 people per
machine.  Either of these two gentlemen are as likely to be the person posting
the Identity "Christian" nonsense; Arndt has never seemed to support that
kind of stupidity except when he wanted to whip Rich into a frothing rage.

Sorry, Rich, but I regret to inform you that the evidence does not support
your conjecture; it is just too likely that Black is a separate person.

Hutch