From:	Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Runner Here
Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:32:51 -0800

>>>>>[Gweedo, I would suggest you consider Mr. Lynch's comments with more
gravity than you seem to be giving them. While it is unfortunate in this
world we live in that there are those who are sheltered enough to consider
human lives as no more than "capital assets" this is not the case for all.
The men you killed had friends and lovers, some of them perhaps even had
wives and children. It seems to me to be unwise to make light of their
deaths in such a "public" forum.

While I would have to concur that it would be an unwise business practice
for a large corporation such as Ares to "send a whole fraggin [sic] army"
after "every two-bit runner" as yourself, there may be individuals within
the corporation who may be personally involved enough to weigh the
circumstance differently. Note that to publicly announce yourself as the
killer of certain men, you greatly increase the ease, and thereby greatly
reduce the cost, of your being acquired, targeted, and eliminated by those
who would wish to return to you the harm you did to their compatriots,
perhaps with interest. This of course, after you have been forced by
ungentle persuasion to provide them with all the knowledge you have about
the person stolen from their grasp that you alluded to.

The greatest boon of shadows is anonymity.]<<<<<
-- Hephaestus <12:35:34/03-23-58 PST>