In a message dated 9/4/2003 1:42:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, duckrogers@shaw.ca writes: Jer has been one of my closest friends for almost 20 years, and the dead pan worked on me too. I actually asked him if it was legit. Yeah, I fell for Jeremy's e-mail, too. Sting, after all, has been on Howard Stern's show, so to me, Sting's faux response, if put in the right context, was believable, especially since I'm not familiar with Jeremy's humor. And being as the alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant case has had her identity splattered across the 'Net, I didn't think twice about Sting's e-mail address being posted, about privacy issues. Sounds as if many people fell for Jeremy's post. Maybe that makes a statement about our society? The 'Net lifts the net off personal privacy. We'll believe anything. Maybe because we've heard it all? The 'Net is a megaphone for sensationalism. We're getting deep here. Talk about "taking things too seriously." Johnny Nitro