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From: jef@unisoft.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Oh, come on!!
Message-ID: <387@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 01:17:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 01:17:39 1987
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Reply-To: jef@unisoft.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
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In the referenced article, rcj@moss.ATT.COM (Curtis Jackson) wrote:
>            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.

Curtis you ignorant slut.  Mark has never ever claimed to be anything
other than the woman he is.  Mark Ethan Smith is his full legal name
and has been for years.  If you can't understand this, it only shows
how small *your* mind is.

>A colleague of mine recently mailed me a suspicion as to the real identity
>of Mark, and what he suggested made a lot of sense, would explain a lot of
>things (would explain her writing style *perfectly*, for instance), and would
>make me even more convinced from long experience that this person is nothing
>but a deliberate trouble-maker and attention hound.  Long-time net.women
>readers, think about it.

If you have something to say, say it.  The above insinuation is revolting.
---
Jef

 Jef Poskanzer  unisoft!jef@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu  ...ucbvax!unisoft!jef
  "...but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a
  torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." -- Samuel Johnson