I am now your trusty air-l email list manager, but back in 1994 I founded Setters-L, which is still the primary internet forum for the four setter dog breeds (English, Gordon, Irish, and Irish Red & White), and I ran it for several years before handing it over to a new admin team in the early 2000s. During the fairly early years of the 1990s, there was a subscriber who went by "Clark Rocke" (or "Rocka" -- I can't exactly remember), and he adopted a special needs Gordon setter from, as I recall, Montana. He explained to me during the subscription process that this wasn't his full name, and that his name was in fact Clark Rockefeller. He said that he didn't want people to know who he really was and just be interested in him because he was a Rockefeller. Because Setters-L didn't/doesn't allow anonymous or pseudonymous subscriptions, that was a bit of an issue, and probably what started my back channel chats with him. I think he also posted to the list about taking the dog to the club in Manhattan to which he belonged to swim, which was allowed for rehab purposes because of who he was. This was also a time when I was with my now-ex, who grew up in Manhattan, and he and I went there fairly frequently with dogs in tow. Thus, "Clark" and I chatted about getting together with our dogs. I fell out of touch with him and well, here's what he's been up to lately (and when he was on Setters-L, and before). From the New York Times: FASHION & STYLE | August 24, 2008 Ready-Made Rockefeller By PAM BELLUCK and SARA RIMER The fine art and town house convinced many that Clark Rockefeller was real. Now the charade is over. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/fashion/24rockefeller.html I'm sure this case raises some interesting scholarly questions, especially about identity -- in this case, taking on a false identity in real life, then taking on a different (but reallly the same) identity online in a faux effort to deflect attention away from the supposed real life identity which is in fact fake -- but at the moment I'm just floored by my experience with a now-notorious fakester... and kidnapper. Holly --- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 800 S. Tucker Drive Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu or holly.kruse@gmail.com http://personal.utulsa.edu/~holly-kruse