Rich is one of those "different" people.  You have to read his posts and talk to him to get the full picture, but at one point he admits what usually takes months of analysis

Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:28:19 -1000 (HST)
From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org>
Subject: Re: Pyle on Air

> Rich,
> Just tell them the story. These guys are you peers, they would never
> criticise(sp?) or judge you before knowing the whole
> story...right??????.

O.K., Joe - you're right. I should 'fess up.

See, everyone, I'm not who I claim to be. I am an alien from a planet in the galaxy your astronomers call XJ11435. I am one of over fifty thousand of our kind sent here to infultrate your society. We actually are responsible for the existence of the Internet (and you guys thought you could have come up with it so fast...HA!). Our strategy is to join every email list in the world, and gain the trust and respect of the members of these lists by dispensing useful information - then we can seduce you all into submission.   Sometimes, when there are a wide range of personalities on these email lists, two of us have to join and play "good-cop / bad-cop". My partner on the dive lists is known in our homeland as G4, but you know him by his Earth name "George"....

Oh...wait a minute... you meant tell them the story about the lava dive  thing on the Learning Channel! OOPS!!!

Hey, ummm....everyone? Just forget all that stuff I said above, O.K.?  I was only...um...kidding.

Aloha,
Rich