[51812] in Cypherpunks
Re: rhetorical trickery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Sun Mar 10 00:06:52 1996
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 20:49:59 -0800
To: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@UNiX.asb.com>,
"Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 09:15 PM 3/9/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote:
>"Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> >> but I have a question: how did they know it was his diary?
>> >
>> >If I remember some earlier discussion about that case from a few years
>> >ago, the file was called "diary.pgp".
>>
>> how did they know it was *his* diary?
>
>Well, nobody *knows*. But if you've got a file called diary.pgp on
>your hard drive, chances are it's a diary of some sort. It's a
>reasonable guess.
Or it's the list of local dairies, and the guy can't spel....
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
