hi all At 00:45 1999/02/08 EST, marie wrote: >"alian " (?) Howard replied to me about Eye Problems - >Why I don't know, but what he said confused me- somehow, i'm not surprised he has written to me a few times and has not revealed much except that he thinks martin bayne is 'a clever fellow' 'with computers' >If this person is a hoax, which after reading all the posts from >and pertaining to him I feel he must be, what is the reply from >this man from California mean? if you mean joe bruman, he is a long-time contributor to this group and his messages usually state his meaning pretty darn clearly >Is he an alian too. maybe! maybe we all are!?! >If so how can we feel safe about the info on this list- that we >aren't waisting time with the possibilities of being made idiots >if we respond. we can feel pretty safe in my three years on the list i've only seen maybe 5 genuine dyed-in-the-wool scam / spam artists any other aliens that i've seen were simply sufferers of surpluses of bizarre senses of humour / humor if we respond from our hearts how can we be 'made' idiots? if we get taken in by a pro scammer how can that 'make' us idiots? if we harden our hearts to all comers and turn away all the rest as well as the 5 scammers then i think we will have been made idiots >Thanks for the warnings, but I need further clarification >about this kind of situation on lists such as this... i have a web page on 'being hustled on the list' if you have wwweb access, you might find it interesting if this saga is a work of fiction i cannot think of anyone other than the initiator of the 'i'm on to you robert fink' thread who has the skill and the, shall i say, 'warped-ness' of the brayne yoo-hoo?! janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm [log in to unmask]