Since Susan's credibility is rather, err, low, I thought I'd comment
on what I am able to confirm about her confession.
>>>>> On 12 May 92 02:56:59 GMT, susan@coombs.anu.edu.au (Susan McDonald) said:
> Basically, all the Americans, and you, got it wrong. I am Brian.
Brian, (claiming to be the real Brian) has confirmed this in email.
> Brian, as far as this newsgrope is concerned hasn't been posting since he
> got back from overseas in January of this year.
Here is some email I got from "Brian" a few weeks ago. (Just before
Susan reappeared in this newsgroup.)
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Mar 92 09:40:22 +1000, brian@coombs.anu.edu.au (Brian) said:
> In talk.politics.guns you write:
>>Shall we invite [Susy and Pirani] back into this newsgroup to see
>>what they do say? :-)
> Oh, yes! Please do! No, unfortunately Susan is now overseas
> and will be for the next year. Shame really, I think a little head kicking
> is really in order again. ;-)
>>>>> (Susan again)
> I am also "Karl Marx" and "Kylie Minogue". Although, as you
> noted, the firebrand left-winger and the airhead blonde bimbo personalities
> were a little more difficult to sustain than these two. Even so, I still
> managed to fool a lot of you. I bet some of you were fantasising over
> this "young, naive girl who didn't understand why her boyfriend wanted to
> have a gun". You really were quite pathetic.
I don't believe that you were Karl Marx, since he posted from VUT
instead of ANU, and I don't think many thought that "Kylie" was a real
person, since that is as obvious a pseudonym as "Karl Marx" and
"Terminator".
> Oh, and BTW, whoever it was that forged those articles, it was a
> very neat trick. I know that it wasn't me, as "Brian" that posted them,
> and Brian didn't do them, so who was it?
You claim that the forgeries were not a smokescreen to obscure that
inadvertent "porky pie" post? Well, it's quite possible, but I don't
know whether to believe you. I did get some email from "Brian"
warning me that I might be the next forgery victim.
> In addition there was the level of abuse and harassment which I've
> received from assorted different gun nuts over the entire period. These
I don't condone any abuse or harassment you may have received, but
in the whole time that I have been posting, I have gotten very little
of either. Do you think that the difference is that your are abusive
yourself, and respond to abuse with your own abuse?
> However, this does not mean that some of my comments were not
> seriously made. But I expect that the more bigoted, judgemental and
> stupid of you will simply dismiss them from your minds and return to
> your narrow, violent manner of thinking.
If you want people to take you seriously, I suggest you refrain from
insulting them.
> I'd like to thank the more interesting and nicer Americans like Jeff,
> Joan, and David Barton, to name a few of the more notable ones. Basically
I am truly impressed by their patience and ability to engage you in
rational discussion.
> I've enjoyed disrupting this newsgrope. I now return you to your
> regular transmission...............
Don't slam the door on the way out, Susan.
Tim