Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Impersonation
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:57:51 -0700

Gib Robinson wrote:
> 
> [Arturo wrote]
> 
> > Relax Gib.  What difference does it make if LUG recognizes a fraud for
> what
> > it is?  Impersonating a LUG icon (yes, you Tom A) is futile.  The beauty
> of
> > the net is its ultimate (and international) incarnation of the First
> > Amendment.  Little, if any, intervention here!!
> 
> A number of people -- me included -- went out to check on the story because
> we believed the source to be reliable. Impersonation undermines that
> reliability.
> 
> --Gib

I hate being told to relax. It never makes me relaxed. Quite the opposite.
Here you had made a strong clear forceful and needed point. No relaxation was needed.
But I wonder why this guy was so easily traceable. Like the Wizard behind that
very small curtain.
It's possible that instead of this being a clear case of off center stupidity it
might involve some less obvious more convoluted perversions. Isn't this
exciting!? And I am getting spammed. like crazy now too! But with a big enough
barrel in Denmark there's bound to be a rotten apple Danish or otherwise. They
don't keep very well in those barrels.
Mark Rabiner