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From: jr@lf-server-2.bbn.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: There IS a hoax at UCB
Message-ID: <293@lf-jr.BBN.COM>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 10:40:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 10:40:10 1987
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Yow!  Are we Peter Wimsey yet?

In article  <1311@aurora.UUCP> barry@aurora.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes:
>[]
>	Whee! This stuff is getting interesting. Can I play detective,
>too? Here we go...
> [various inclusions from Ronda Schribner]
>	At this point it starts to look like somebody's out-and-out
>lying. Unless Rhonda's friends found the wrong MES, it seems either
>that:
>
>	1) Those who claim to have met MES are lying.
>	2) Rhonda is lying.
>	3) MES is lying. Either he lied to Rhonda's friends about
>knowing about Usenet, or someone claiming to be MES is lying to everyone
>in sight about who he really is.
>[assessments of the various possiblities]
>Maybe we should have a poll
>in the meantime? Everybody votes on who's real, and who isn't?

Those who claim to be MES may be lying.  Those who claim to be Rhoda
may be lying.  Those who claim there is only one MES (or that he/she
is a man/woman) may be lying.  Roda may be Larry Lippmann.  Or Eric
Mading - Madison is pretty close to Chicago, right?  4) All of the
above?  5) can anyone spell user names right?  does it matter?  why?
why not?  ... in 50 words or less.

[Did anyone notice the anagrams you can get from eric mading?  My
favorite is manic dirge.  Fitting in light of her demise.  What, he's
back?]

Now who should vote in this poll?  Hoaxes clearly shouldn't vote.
Hey, but that violates their first amendment rights to post to the
net!  So we need two polls, one for real people and one for hoaxes.
Be sure your hoax votes only once, though.  These hoaxes could
probably cast too many votes and disrupt the fairness of the vote...

But then, once we have the answer, those hoaxes will have their covers
blown, and in a flash of self-actualization, will ... (crash? become
human? find a new pseudo-name? sing "Daisy, Daisy"? Cast your vote.
Prove it.)

Watch out!  This poster has a pretty suspicious login:

In article  <21845@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> robinson@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Michael Robinson) writes:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Michael Robinson                              USENET:  ucbvax!ernie!robinson
>                                              ARPA: robinson@ernie.berkeley.edu

He/she claims to be from Berkeley, but is NOT USING A BONA FIDE BRAHMS
.signature.  Coincidence?  Usenet minds ache to know.

I'm not voting yet.  Have to decide which pseudo to use.

"We are all Rich Rosen."  Seen on a usenet wall.

"I am not a hoax."  Some president or crook.

"I'm just a clone of myself."  Compton Maddux.

No smileys required.
-- 
/jr
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