I'm furious. A guy I know from the chat rooms just told me that he heard that Hunybuns is a sixty-year old gay man, not a thirty-five year old divorcee like she (he!) said she was. He's a cybertransvestite. This guy said that Hunybuns cruises the net all the time looking for men like me to jerk around. He gets off on it.

Now I know why Hunybuns wanted to get me into a private chat room so quick. The more time he spends in the public chat rooms, the more likely some will recognize his style and out him.

What a slimeball!

So, I'm telling everyone, here and now, "Watch out for Hunybuns! He's a liar and a pervert!"

I'm helping to spread the word through the chat rooms and I'm putting this warning here. But I know that it won't do any good. There are too many chat rooms and it's too easy for someone like Hunybuns to make up a new name, like "HotCake" and keep going.

I wish I knew his real name. Then I'd stop him, but good.

I was talking to someone in a chat room - calls himself Nyte Phyter - who was telling me how hard it is to stop someone in cyberspace. He said that even the government is afraid of the Net. It's just too complicated and changes too fast for the bureaucrats to keep up.

He might be right. I am a middle manager and I have been working at this night and day for a couple of months, and the whole thing seems more complicated now than it did when I first started.

Nyte Phyter says that the Net is like the old west: wild and free. It's the kind of place where Americans thrive better than anyone.

I say, "Yee-haw!"

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