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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU!bh
  2. From: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.magic
  4. Subject: Re: To reveal or not to reveal...
  5. Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:28:54 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
  7. Lines: 6
  8. Message-ID: <1ebdl6INNmc8@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <BARNETT.92Nov13105053@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <1992Nov17.035955.6127@r-node.gts.org> <BARNETT.92Nov17125452@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.cs.berkeley.edu
  11.  
  12. barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
  13. >People don't want secrets. They think they do, but they really want mystery.
  14.  
  15. Imho, saying this to 13,000 non-magicians does more harm to the magic community
  16. than revealing secrets.  "I know what you want better than you do" is pretty
  17. insulting.
  18.