From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 07:54:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Minor Language Note
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>> While it was not Tim's intention to make Jim look like a criminal, the
>> use of a defendent's full name is often used to connote criminality.
>>
>> Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Milhous
>> Nixon, William Jefferson Clinton... there are many examples.

George Washington Carver, James Fennimore Cooper, Richard Dean Anderson,
Clare Booth Luce, Robert Anton Wilson, Francis Scott Key, .....

Your point was what, Monty?

(Sometimes people have three names, sometimes two names, popularly used.
Criminality has little to do with it. For example, Richard Speck, Charles
Manson, John Walker, Aldrich Ames, Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, Terry
Nichols.  Most of them presumably have middle names.)

Oh, and as to divining what Tim's "intention" was, this mindreading and
psychoanalysis shtick is getting old.

--Tim May

The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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