Re: META: Getting the facts straight

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 09:00:24 MDT


From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>

>Does anyone actually know these "Stan Kretler" and "Carl Bonzer"
>people? I ask because it is a known behavior pattern for certain
>types of people to make accusatory posts, then chime in in their
>own defense via "morphs". If Stan Kretler and Carl Bonzer are
>real people, then I do apologize for raising the issue, but the
>question does need to be asked.

>I believe there are textual analysis tools that can detect
>multiple identities, but I can't recall offhand where to find
>them.

It seems alot of us are thinking the same thing.

A couple of bad mannered hotmail addresses drop out of nowhere onto
the list.

Web search negative.

They really haven't posted enough for a good content analysis but
even a rudimentary scan is showing high probabability.

Anyway my <PLONK> key is getting a workout.

Brian

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