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  "thread": {
    "id": 732,
    "subject": "The mantis-Borski hoax exposed!!!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-03T14:40:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-03T14:40:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0075@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-03T14:40:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The mantis-Borski hoax exposed!!!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I can't believe nobody's mentioned this before, and even I was a little\nslow to catch on, though I thought something was funny in the way that both\nRobert Borski and mantis almost always seemed to follow one another in\ntheir postings--plus seemed to include stuff not privy to the lists, but\nthey obviously each somehow knew about ahead of time. \n\nThen there was all that talk about secret sharers and doubles, which maybe\n5fthH is really about (I haven't read it yet--still trying to figure out\nSeverian), but didn't this make you suspicious?\n\nThen we had that loupy (see, I can pun 2) little \"Diary as Metafiction\"\npost, which was also preceeded by the very curious remark about how mantis\n\"grew him (Robert Borski) from a bean.\" \n\nAs for their writing style, sometimes they seemed different, sometimes they\ndidn't--couple of times I would have been hard pressed to ID the author if\na name hadn't been attached.\n\nAs for the two different e-mail addresses, these are very easy to fake if\nyou use a nymserver. I'll prove it to you. Check out how I'm listed above\nby lists.best.com. See? No big deal.\n\nAnd wasn't it Robert Borski who allegedly wrote \"Cave Canem\"? (Hey, is this\na play on New Sun's Cumaean?) Looks like \"he\" might have slipped up here,\nbecause the \"Cave Canem Indices\" in the most recent urth list identifies\nthe compiler as one m.driussi!\n\nI mean it all seems rather obvious on highsight (if a little puerile, the\nphrase 'get-a-life' ring a bell), and I probably wouldn't have said\nanything, because I appreciate a good joke and have also been very\ncomfortable with my lurker status, but this morning my brother-in-law came\nover and I asked him if he could tell me what the word 'borski' might\nmean--it seems Polish, and he and my sister met on a semester abroad\nprogram in Krakow.\n\nHe said he wasn't absolutely sure, but he thought it sounded very similar\nto the Polish word for praying.\n\n'Praying mantis.' Get it?\n\nCome on, Michael Andre-Driussi.\n\nConfess.\n\nYou are Robert Borski.\n\npumaise at twincities.com \n(call me he-who-lurks-no-more)"
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