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From: ustel@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's in a name?? (was: There IS a hoax at UCB)
Message-ID: <4517@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 23:36:34 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 23:36:34 1987
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> 1.  Mark Ethan Smith is a real person.  I have seen Mark's driver's
>
> 2.  Rhonda Scribner is a real person.  Granted I have no first hand knowledge
> 
> 3.  Rhonda Scribner is not Bill Vajk.  Bill is a close friend of mine.  I

*GASP*  With a single posting you've _destroyed_ weeks and weeks of
        mind-numbing, teeth-gnashing arguments!  You may have removed
        the very basis for *life itself* from various netters!

...thanks for doing it!  :-)

> I used to feel differently on this subject, but I've come to see that nothing
> but the idea is important.  What for example, is any different about a
> person taking another name to post to the net, than if the same person had
> a 'nom de plume' under which they published books?  Nothing that I can see.

...and nothing that I can see either.  I think the problem is that everyone
is too lethargic to actually *have* any new ideas recently, so it's been the 
"same 'ole stuff" for quite a while now.

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Mark A. Hargrove                                             U.S. TeleCenters
Voice: 408-496-1800                                          Santa Clara, CA
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