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From: benson@alcatraz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Oh, come on!!
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 08:22:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 08:22:27 1987
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In article <9692@clyde.ATT.COM> rcj@moss.ATT.COM (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>Damn, people!
>Almost every legal contract I have ever seen in the US requires a notarized
>signature.  Mark Ethan Smith, by sheer virtue of the fact that she got accounts
>on BBS and USENET systems by claiming she was Mark Ethan Smith (which she has
>admitted she ain't), has shown enough breach of faith to be kicked off of any
>system.
>
Well, if anyone out there thought that the anti-mark position (in general, not
necessarily the actions of greg@gryphon) had a shred of rationality to its
credit, this should cure them of the idea. Why should I, or anyone else,
believe this flaming, foaming, attempt to deny mark's legal right to the
name? It it were possible to write someting with even less credibility than
some of the wilder posts attributed to, and perhaps, but only perhaps, 
actually written by, mark, here we have it.

If the net is in danger of having the feds pull the plug, its ~libel (approximate
libel) like this that will do it, not mark ragging people about pronouns.

>Let this idiot

Ah yes, reasoned argument. Beware of tossing mud, sometimes some of it stays around.

>
>A colleague of mine recently mailed me a suspicion as to the real identity
>of Mark,

And here we are, in the wonderful world of inuendo. Don't say anything specfic,
for fear of having to defend your point. Just hope that you can conjure up the
nastiest possibility out of everyone's personal mind.

Judging from the content of the post, what you are afraid of is Andrea
Dworkin armed with a rusty spoon and accompanied by a troup of very muscular
rugby players.

I'd say you have good reason to be afraid, were I not in doubt of your
having anything to remove with the spoon.

Now, how does it feel to catch a few insults yourself?

Benson I. Margulies                         Kendall Square Research Corp.
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