From: bam@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Bruce A. Martin)
Subject: Re: public appeal to John DiNardo to stop posting to soc.culture.usa
Organization: (none)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:44:20 GMT

In article <lm8hiqINN9ro@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>Dear John,
>...
>I write this message in regards to your frequent articles (cross-)posted to the
>newsgroups soc.culture.usa, specifically, with such Subject-headers as:
>	"Part 1, U.S. Government Smuggles Heroin Inside Corpses"
>(but my criticism applies just as well for several others of the groups that I
>see your articles cross-posted to, consistently).
>
>I really appreciate your efforts of making all the Pacifica Radio Network
>transcripts available, but I would like to appeal to you to stop cross-posting
>them to all those groups - but most and especially to soc.culture.usa and
>misc.headlines (but also several of the alt.* groups)


Werner, I appreciate your attempt to make a reasonable appeal
to John DiNardo, but I fear your efforts are wasted.

In the past, many others have asked him both publically and privately to
refrain from posting lengthy transcripts to multiple groups, in multiple
pieces (with variant headers designed to defeat thread-kills).  Such requests
are generally ignored, or more typically the entire request is reflected back
to the sender, who reads the "answer" only to find that nothing whatsoever
was added.

At one point, when the volume of protest became loud, he (and others) cried
"censorship" and "conspiracy".  Apparently, however, the words courtesy and
consideration are not in his vocabulary.  His only contribution to the
dialogs which he rebroadcasts is an appendage in which he asserts that the
only worthwile activity in which any homo sapien should engage is the further
repetition and reposting of those transcripts which John DiNardo has
personally selected and promoted.

At last, I have finally realized the truth:  

	THERE IS NO SUCH PERSON AS "JOHN DiNARDO".

Yes, the secret can now be told:  There really is no such person.
We have all failed the Turing test!  "John DiNardo" is merely a "loopback".

It is now clear that there is an insidious conspiracy to censor all other
users of these boards.  The nefarious conspirators are attempting to
accomplish this by gradully saturating the subject lists with incessant
rebroadcasts, discouraging readers with long lists of multipart multipostings,
cluttering the conversational threads with monotonous monologs, stifling
debate via filibuster tactics (which are always won by those who value their
time and message the least), and harassing any who protest.  But, if you
value your life, don't tell anybody this secret!

New evidence indicates that "John DiNardo" is really a secret code name for a
clandestine operation of the Central Intelligence Agency.  As such, it is no
doubt linked to the recent shootings, which were obviously engineered to
engender public sympathy for the agency (and eliminate internal opposition,
in the process).  

Actually, this message itself is really a CIA plot to dispell suspicion, by
stating the truth in a ridiculous manner, so that it will be discounted.  In
fact, this message does not really exist -- it is merely the result of new
CIA experiments with virtual reality programs which mislead the reader into
believing that he is reading a message when in fact the reader is really
named "John DiNardo", but has not yet been allowed to realize it.  By 
saturating the ether with CIA-inspired encrypted=pheromes, the puppet
masters are taking over the planet by obstructing all rational dialog
so as to transmute all DNA strings into replicas of the "John DiNardo" 
virus.  Whoops, there goes another one.  (Maybe it was you.)

Now that the truth is out, perhaps somebody will find him an ftp site
from which he can make his stuff available.
At the very least, we could get 100 people to vote in a group named
"alt.pacifica" (moderated by him, of course), so that interested readers 
could find all his stuff in one place.  Then, he could "spread the 
word" by posting notices of what is there -- rather than harassing the 
readers of all these boards with multiple, multipart postings rebroadcasting 
every single transcript in its entirety.

Naaah.  Why should he?  Instead, beginning at the next full moon,
he's going to start posting re-transcriptions of the entire Congressional 
Record next week, on all news groups that have the letter "c" in their name.