[42651] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Dr." Fred
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Wed Nov 1 05:28:54 1995
From: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
To: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 05:22:17 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511010235.DAA00908@utopia.hacktic.nl> from "Anonymous" at Nov 1, 95 03:35:07 am
> The most charitable explanation for "Dr." Fred is that
> he's degenerated into the professional equivalent of
> those pathetic aging former chess masters who try to
> eek out a subsistence living by charging five bucks a
> game. People often play with them out of sympathy, or
> for the novelty of having lost to a past great. It's
> part of the chess culture, and it's basically harmless
> and sort of quaint.
Most of then could still beat your chess game.
> The difference, of course, is that its almost impossible
> to have sympathy for Dr. Fred. His hustle is for a hell
> of a lot more than subsistence. He was also never actually
> a master of his field, a fact that becomes increasingly
> obvious as our exposure to him goes on. Now he's reduced
> himself to trying to collect someone else's winnings.
Sour grapes, and from an anonymous poster too. Oooo - I'm insulted.
I have been thinking about the issues of anonymity for some time, and I
have been convinced for some time that you can't have both integrity and
anonymity. I thought there might be ways to accomplish this, but the
cypherpunks have convinced me it isn't true. Show some integrity and
tell us who you are.
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