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From: robinson@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Skyler Says
Message-ID: <21819@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 02:45:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 02:45:40 1987
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Reply-To: robinson@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Michael Robinson)
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Keywords: there's a hoax at UCB

In article <1842@chinet.UUCP> rhonda@chinet.UUCP (Rhonda Scribner) writes:
>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.

What, who, huh?  Beg pardon?  I didn't post any such thing.  You should
read your headers.  Skyler told me that Rhonda was insinuating that I
was a hoax on a private mailing list, and I muttered a few obscenities
and suggested the proposal mentioned above.

>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?

Weemba probably noticed your fuckup and did you a favor.  Some people
actually know how to read headers.

>(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.)

Goons, are we?  Mocking real women's rights problems are we?  Just 
having fun are we?  Well, if you're right, then I guess we'll see you
in hell.

I think it might be possible to get Mark to agree to similar proposal,
provided, of course, you can find someone who he considers suitably 
unbiased to show your ID to.  I don't know, though.

Maybe you could post your state of residence and driver's license number.
That might work, but I'll have to look into it.

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