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Author Re: Sunday Sermons
Richard E Maine

2005-08-23, 7:00 pm

In article <deft1l$i22$1@scrotar.nss.udel.edu>,
Rich Townsend <rhdt@barVOIDtol.udel.edu> wrote:

> It may interest readers to note that "owl" and "kia" both post messages
> with near-identical headers to B. Voh. Based on the fact that all three
> of them can't stop whining incessantly about the demise of CVF, it
> seems almost certain that they're the same person.


I didn't actually need to look at the headers to figure that out (and I
didn't bother to look there either). The content was sufficient for the
deduction. Wasn't exactly a very difficult deduction either.

I will leave it as an exercise to the student to draw whatever
conclusions might be merited from the observation that someone appears
to post under multiple pseudo-anonymous names without any explicit
indication of the connection.

I prefer to let people know who I am, even though it occasionally
results in annoyances (such as people bitching at my employer). The
annoyances are part of the cost of establishing a reputation.

--
Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: my first.last at org.domain | experience comes from bad judgment.
org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain
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