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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Impersonation
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:14:39 -0400

Oh Gawd! Mark, now the Danes'll be spamming you for making a remark about
Denmark ( They do make delicious ham, though!).
You must step lightly, even if you don't relax!
Dan (aka Lars Bloodaxe of Elsinore) on my eighth cup of COFFEE foR ThE Day!

}o)  (Best I could do to put horns on my helmet!)


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Impersonation


> 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