On Sun, 8 May 2005, Nick Palmer wrote: > Incidentally, when Greg refunded me, the actual international money order > had been filled out by Shirley Watson...
That's good to know. People have rich lives, and when the "richness" disappears, I take it as a sign that the person is "gaming" the system by carefully controlling the release of information, or just manufacturing false information. This is most common with major flamers, where they use false names and email addresses to avoid the usual ISP complaints, mailbombings, and death threats from their opponents. On the other hand, some people honestly have no online presence, no local friends also online, no messages in the odd forum archive, etc. The "missing richness" isn't proof of anything. But when it's just one of a large number of clues, the shape of the real signal starts to become apparent within the noise. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
