X-Message-Number: 31158
From: "Chris Manning" <>
References: <>
Subject: Re: Rick Potvin (was "Who is PhilOssifur?")
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:43:02 +1100

> Message #31152
> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:18:18 -0700
> Subject: Rick Potvin (was "Who is PhilOssifur?")
> From:  (Tim Freeman)
>
> Rick Potvin is apparently a real person.  He is interested in cryonics
> and Lyndon Larouche.  He has also repeatedly posted to cryonet and
> marketed the network54 blogging site.  (You can confirm all this by
> using www.cryonet.org to find his old cryonet posts.)
>
> Phil Ossifur is a pseudonym with all of the same traits except for the
> name.
>
> This is a fairly unusual set of traits, so I think they are the same 
> person.

It took me some time to notice that Phil Ossifur = philosopher.

Whether two posters are in fact the same person could in principle be 
ascertained using statistical techniques on their posts, e.g. word counts. I 
think this was done with Shakespeare and the Bible. 

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31158