Re: the Joy of Pseudospoofing Satan

["Robert J. Woodhead" <trebor@foretune.co.jp>]

Panzer Boy writes:

>I do ask you L Detweiler, what you consider of this case.  In "real-life"
>awhile back there was a womem who was an actor.  She didn't like the fact
>that she needed an agent to get w>ork.  So she invented a personality, an
>became her own agent.  She aquired a different personality, different
>voice patterns, etc, for this agent.  She made sure the agent did
>everything over the phone, never meeting clients in person.  Soon after
>doing this, she started being an agent for other actors also.  She
>obviously spoke well of her actorself when she was in her agentself, and
>she obviously kept two personalities.  Is this wrong?  Should this women
>not have done this?

Yes, she was being deceptive.  No, she was not being maliciously
deceptive, as her "agentself" was merely doing the same thing that
a seperate agent would have done, being an advocate for the actor.

The difference is that the third party _expects_ the agent to praise
the actor.  In L Detweilers example, the pseudo-spoofer was using
the _lack_ of expectation to his/her advantage.


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