From: nobody@shell.portal.com
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 06:38:50 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Diogenes speaks
Message-ID: <199408161338.GAA24925@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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Tim May wrote:

> One of the Diogenes entities wrote:
> 
> > So now do we need a Cypherpunks Nym Server?  I notice that somebody
> > else is using my alias... ah, well.
> > 
> > For the record, the Diogenes who just got active on Cypherpunks isn't
> > me, and, as you can tell by checking corresponding signatures, I'm
> 
> Which is why name collision, or nym collision, is not a pressing
> problem. Better to decentralize the process to local machines, to the
> people who care, than to any kind of Cypherpunks Nym Server.

When I registered my key with the PGP key server, I don't recall 
seeing another "Diogenes" key registered. I certainly had no intention of
pseudonymously "impersonating" anyone.  Oh well, for the record I'm....

 -- "Diogenes 0xD1150D49"

P.S. Also, most of our "real" names are far from being "unique" identifiers,
either.  I wonder how many Tim Mays I could find in the phone book in any
large city? <g>

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