From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 11:16:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: AP Bot Results
In-Reply-To: <199706231344.JAA17712@dhp.com>
Message-ID: <19970627195907.15928@bywater.songbird.com>
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On Mon, Jun 23, 1997 at 11:44:33PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At or before 09:44 AM 6/23/97 -0400, some provocateur wrote:
> ...
> >Leading eCa$h candidates for dying at an opportune time to make some
> >perennial loser "Dead Lucky" are:
> ...[targets deleted, with prices from $514 to 2,610.02 ]
> 
> >Leading Contributors/Bettors:
> >The James Gang
> >The Dalton Gang
> >The Bell Gang
> >William Geiger III
> 
> You've done an inadequate job of implementing your protocol,
> endangering your customers far more than your targets.

Hmm -- back from vacation, and what do I find?

Actually, more worrisome is the effect things like this might have on
Jim Bell's legal problems.  A nice, lurid example of an anonymous
conspiracy involving AP for the prosecutors to chew on...

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