[14446] in Cypherpunks
Re: Detweiler's motivations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Mon May 30 21:07:57 1994
To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 94 17:58:57 PDT
From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9405302236.AA24055@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu>; from "Karl Lui Barrus" at May 30, 94 5:36 pm
Karl said:
> I agree it is difficult to determine Detweiler's motivations; I've
> carried on quite civil email exchanges with him... but the posts from
> tmp@netcom.com are quite bizzare.
He's still mostly normal in e-mail. However, I think it's best to be
careful what you say. I once responded to a question of his about
actual instances of PSEUDOSPOOFING; I mentioned a user here who spent
some time replying to himself on rec.music.industrial. His response
was something along the lines of "hee hee you're a tentacle", and
now look what he's doing to talk.politics.crypto et al....
Hal's analysis seems plausible to me. This whole self-reply cascade
has got to be some kind of surreal propaganda maneuver.
Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
