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On 13 Jan 2003 at 12:30, Todd Boyle wrote:
> What *was* your point in redistributing the "nigger killing" 
> post from Cypherpunks, in the digital bearer settlement list? 
> Does that have something to do with digital cash, or enhance 
> your IBUC business somehow?   Maybe, increasing traffic by 
> being cool and shocking?

Tim May pulled people's legs -- some sucker took it seriously, 
so someone decided to pull a little harder to see how much a 
sucker would swallow.

The hunting post was obviously a joke, as the final line made
clear. The real joke was that some readers would fail to see
that the first line was a joke, would believe that cypherpunks
really do go hunting black people. 

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