blacknet international offers DOSSIERS for SALE

In article <9310270231.AA02958@tamsun.tamu.edu> remail@tamsun.tamu.edu writes:
 > blacknet international is pleased to offer the following materials for sale:
 > 
 > DOSSIERS: on the current participants in the Cypherpunks Mailing List Flame war
 > 
 > PRICES: Prices and delivery terms upon request via encrypted anonymous return
 > address.
 > 
 > SUBJECTS:
 > Perry Metzger <pmetzger@lehman.com> 
 > Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>   
 > S. Boxx <an12070@anon.penet.fi>  
 > L. Detweiler<ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu> 
 > Timothy C. May <tcmay@netcom.com>  
 > Ray Cromwell  <rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu>  
 > David Sternlight        <strnlght@netcom.com>
 > 
 > These are available now via PGP encrypted return anonymous mail.

Yes yes, very droll.  What's not so funny is that the moderator
of comp.dcom.telecom appears to have taken the BlackNet joke idea
for his very own, and *is* selling dossiers on people for the purposes
of doing nasty things to them (as he says himself in a footnote some
way down this post)

Of course, I'd like to discuss this in comp.dcom.telecom, but I'm
persona non grata there nowadays...

> What's not so funny is that the moderator of comp.dcom.telecom appears to
> have taken the BlackNet joke idea for his very own, and *is* selling
> dossiers on people for the purposes of doing nasty things to them...

While I'm sure he enjoys the extra income, Townson's made it clear that a
large part of his motivation in setting up the Digital Detective thing is
to shove it in peoples' faces just how easy it is to get that kind of
information.

Surely this old news.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@unm.edu)