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Subject: Pseudo People on the net????
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 15:26:23 EST
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Date: 27 Dec 85 18:31:40 PST (Friday)
From: Hoffman.es@Xerox.ARPA
Subject: "Mind rape" by computer mail

In the October 1985 issue of 'Ms.' magazine, there's a lengthy article
entitled "The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover" by Lindsy Van
Gelder.  It's tells how a prominent New York psychiatrist in his early
fifties maintained an on-line identity over CompuServe for more than
two years as a disabled, late-twenties, female neuropsychologist,
developing intimate friendships with scores of electronic
correspondents.

"She" had a detailed contrived life history, announced her marriage
during the course of the fraud, sent gifts to people, and was heavily
into (bisexual) compusex.

As you might imagine, many of "her" victims felt enormously betrayed,
likening the experience to "mind rape".  The article has quite a bit
to say about the nature of electronic correspondence in general.

--Rodney Hoffman

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