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From: wfp@well.UUCP (William F. Phillips)
Newsgroups: soc.net-people,misc.headlines,misc.misc,news.misc,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: David's Last Wish Hoax Hoax
Keywords: He's trying for a world record urban myth
Message-ID: <10057@well.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 88 05:52:00 GMT
References: <4592@homxc.UUCP> <1097@actnyc.UUCP>
Reply-To: wfp@well.UUCP (William F. Phillips)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1097@actnyc.UUCP> gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
|A number of follow-ups have protested this message.  However, I think
|it's one of the more interesting examples of net pathology.  At first,
|these hoax-protest syndromes were spaced about six months apart.  Now,
|apparently, the cycle time is rapidly becoming shorter, or we have
|seen the appearance of overlapping cycles in different phases.
|
|I would like the original poster, allegedly rick@homxc.UUCP (R.BUTTAFOGO),
|to tell us what or who induced him or her to post this message even as
|another, very similar, message, was being decried as a hoax.  


Hi, Gordon.

_I_ think someone is trying to set a record for the number of times
the same hoax can be perpetrated upon the public.  Undoubtedly,
what we are seeing here is a try for the record in the "Computer
Network" Division.