-- 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. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG VZWpdVuMGJXwD+8kUsrx9HO13zFp6hwvFIsezAEw 414DzHlNJd+xhIFwTZwjjprhbh3YCmMrWCkNV4SM5