oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) (09/27/85)
Recently, this newsgroup has seen speculation that Don Black, David
Bottom and Ken Arndt are one and the same. I vigorously disagree with
that proposition, and claim that:
Don Black is Don Black playing tennis with an invisible opponent.
Ken Arndt is not Don Black, and not himself either.
David Bottom is David Bottom at least twice, not the same.
Don Black sends me courteous and idealistic private mail (usually),
but his public postings reflect neither courtesy nor ideals, nor trace
of reality. I have already stated I consider him a KGB plant sent to
make us complaisant to Soviet wishes, in particular wrt Middle Eastern
affairs. His private mailings seem an attempt to counterbalance his
fire-eating public image, though I have never requested such balance.
Hence playing tennis with his invisible Other.
Ken Arndt is fun when not schlaging Leute tod. Hence he is not Don
Black. I can't reach his mailbox and he hasn't posted here in a while,
so I guess he's not himself these days.
David Bottom is agrammatic and dyslexic when flaming me. He also
utters indirect threats ("Planned your vacation yet?") He is far more
acceptable when defending himself and the Blackian ideals of Freedom Of
Speech Subsidized By DEC, at least from the orthographic and logical
viewpoints. Perhaps he is the father of a paranoid, dyslexic child, who
writes the articles anent "those who attack Don Black," and takes over
the keyboard himself when it's time to answer direct mail. Who knows
how many other people he is.
Isn't sociology fun in the computer age?
Reminder: CJFOTOW meeting Sunday 2200 GMT, my house. The main
entrance tunnel was bombed recently, use alternate routes.
--
Oded Feingold MIT AI Lab. 545 Tech Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139
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