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From: rhonda@chinet.UUCP
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Subject: Skyler Says
Message-ID: <1842@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 11:00:38 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.1842
Posted: Mon Nov 16 11:00:38 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 02:44:31 EST
References: <5909@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Chinet, Chicago Ill.
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Keywords: there's a hoax at UCB
Summary: yup

In article <5909@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, skyler@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>We'll make this very simple.  Rhonda has suggested that Michael
>Robinson is part of a "hoax" at UCB.  If she picks some third party
>whom she trusts (how about Marie des Jardins?) then Michael will go
>to that person with ID in hand to prove that he exists, etc., etc.
>But, Rhonda has to pick some third party where she is and go to that
>person with ID in hand to prove that she exists, etc., etc., or else
>Rhonda should CAN THE INSINUATIONS.

First of all, Mike, I made this accusation to a private mailing list, and
I find it very weird that you see fit to post the content of private e-mail
to the net.  But I have another question.  The hoax I made reference to was
the Mark Ethan Smith hoax that the Berkeley Political Correctness Police
cooked up.  I didn't make any mention that I thought Michael Robinson didn't
exist.  But it's very interesting that this is exactly the hoax concept I
was talking about, that of a poster being fictitious.  What made Mike (and
skyler?) think I was refering to them being fictitious?

I will say this.  Some months ago, I sent mail to the following address:

To: era1987@violet.berkley.edu
Bcc: weemba@violet.berkeley.edu

Note that I deliberately spelled the first one wrong.  It bounced back at
me because berkley.edu wasn't understood.

Note also, that I got mail back from Mark Ethan Smith.  Interesting, huh?

Now what were skyler and Mike insinuating?

(I think the Berkeley goons just got a hold of this local news story about
a real Mark Ethan Smith, and decided to make her into a net character for
fun, in a mockery of real women's rights problems that (sadly) many women
took seriously.)
								--Rhonda