Regarding all these posts about who "S. Finer" really is - the
mystery behind the mystery, so to speak - I have put my swat team
of hyperactive 18-year-old freshmen college boy/nerds, who can't
get a date, on the problem, and we have come up with the
following solution.  

Apropos the recent TIME article on cyberwars and the global
threat to our computer security, as a follow up to their tale of
the dangers of porn on the net, my team has constructed the
reasonable hypothesis that S. Finer is not a person at all, but a
"logic bomb", or other sort of Armageddonish "metaprogram," 
planted on this list by a guerilla group in Southeastern Kansas
designed to detonate at the appropriate time and to engulf our
once high-level discussions with innuendo, fear, and unbearable
triviality.  The result will be that all journalists on this list
will deep six their internet accounts in disgust, go back to
reading wire service printouts, chasing fire trucks, and hanging
out in the White House press room.  By 1998 the internet will
never be mentioned again in the mainstream media, Bill Gates will
follow the same fate as Donald Trump, and the average American
who resides somewhere about 10 miles across the Kansas border in
Missouri will prefer "I Love Lucy" reruns again to Yahoo.

I can't imagine a more nightmarish scenario.  Then, S. Finer will
reveal himself for who he really is - didn't you know he was
predicted to manifest by Nostradamus in the year 1999?  

If one really knew what "S. Finer" stood for...stay tuned... 

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