Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Message-ID: <2060@looking.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 04:53:25 GMT
References: <7086@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7090@gryphon.CTS.COM> <931@psuhcx.psu.edu> <1744@ddsw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Don't be fooled, folks.  This series of similar form letters is actually
a conspiracy to distract attention away from Portal and save it from net
censure.

By carefully making a series of annoying, obnoxious anti-portal postings
from a wide variety of sites, these users (or whoever did the posting) have
actually caused many on the net to rally to the defence of Portal.

At the same time, since the postings come from a variety of sites, there is
no one site to draw the ire.  The ire against Portal is thus diffused into
the net.  If they had been smart, they would have limited the use of
"gryphon.CTS," but perhaps that was just to further cloud the conspiracy.

Well guys, it worked.  You saved Portal from attack.  But we've seen through
it the next time you try.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473