net.legends FAQ
Noticeable Phenomena Of UseNet
Part 4/4
Archive-name: net-legends-faq/part4
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Last-modified: 9/13/94
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* McElroy:
Contrib. post:
# The defender of the oppressed, McElroy has taken it upon himself to
# be the press agent of various freedom fighters around the world, but
# especially the Irish Republican Army. He spends his time uploading
# press releases to soc.culture.celtic, often starting threads which
# use up to 50% of the group's bandwidth. His posts may appear to be
# flame bait, but he almost never enters into a discussion on the
# contents. He has accused some British sites of censorship when he
# heard rumours that his posts were not being distributed there (the
# rumours appear to be false).
--
Posts from MCELROY@zodiac.rutgers.edu
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* Jym Dyer (=o=):
Notable mostly for his unique posting style and paragraph-starting
markers, which are usually =o= but sometimes go =/= =\=; has been
known to use ASCII illuminated letters in their place. Signs himself
<_Jym_>. Posts as jym@remarque.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer).
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* Peter Plantec (Am I *really* a troll?):
Short answer: yes. Probably saw Ted Frank's entry and decided a.f.u
needed a resident loon... Claimed to be dyslexic to cover his
spelling errors; posted wild claims to alt.folklore.urban and other
places. Needed a bit of work on his trolling technique, but had
name-dropping down pat. Has not been seen on afu in some
time. Posted as pplante@netcom.com (P. Plantec).
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* Clayton E. Cramer (Homosexual men often have that many in a week):
Contrib. post:
# Clayton seems to have made it his personal crusade to move into
# relatively sane groups and turn them into stinking hells of
# political flame by starting an anti-homosexual flame war.
--
Try ca.politics, ba.politics or *.politics.* groups. A sample:
# Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
# From: cramer@optilink.dsccc.com (Clayton Cramer)
# Subject: Re: Which comes first?
# Distribution: ba
#
# George Lambert <glambert@pyred.mis.pyramid.com> wrote:
# > cramer@optilink.dsccc.com (Clayton Cramer) writes:
# >> Because "monogamy" for many gay men means they come home to the
# >> same guy after a long night of anonymous sex at the bars. I have
# >> a few postings from soc.motss that refer to being married, yet
# >> then talk about disappointing sexual experiences out at the bars.
# >
# > Just like heaps of straight men and women, Clayton. Wanna take on the
# > straight crowd now?
#
# As usual, you are wrong. The average lifetime number of sexual
# partners for Americans is around seven. Homosexual men often have
# that many in a week.
--
Has recently been sighted on soc.history... Posts as
cramer@optilink.{UUCP|dsccc.com} (Clayton Cramer).
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* Philip H. Stromer:
Contrib. post:
# He was another hate-filled bigot who posted rants about
# homosexuality. He became obsessed with the idea that anal sex would
# wear out the muscles of the digestive tract, causing incontinence;
# he also posted long gloating messages about "AIDS-infested faggots".
#
# Eventually, Sun Microsystems fired him for breach of contract, for
# posting messages which were intimidating and harassing to other
# employees. He sued them, and lost. Appeared again from some
# commercial site or other, but soon sunk out of view.
#
# A salutory lesson to those who believe that the Internet is a
# license to spew bigotry.
--
# Oh yeah. I've read this clown's rantings from time to time, and the
# one thing that occurs to me is that he and little Danny Karnes may
# be the same person. This isn't a _claim_ that they are, mind you,
# but you'd hardly know any better from their posts.
--
# (from the Business section of the San Jose Mercury News, Friday,
# July 31, 1992)
#
# "Email epithets spark Sun lawsuit" by Brandon Bailey
#
# By his own admission, Philip Stromer liked to push the boundaries of
# good taste when he sent out jokes and political statements on his
# employer's electronic mail network.
#
# But according to a lawsuit filed this week in Santa Clara County
# Superior Court, Stromer pushed too far.
#
# The 32-year-old technical writer says he was fired by Sun
# Microsystems in April after he sent a series of email messages that
# were anything but politically correct.
#
# The messages were posted on an electronic bulletin board used by Sun
# workers to exchange jokes and running commentary on a variety of
# topcis unrelated to their jobs.
#
# "I was just trying to make conversation," Stromer said in an
# interview. "I would normally take whatever position was unpopular."
#
# His electronic broadsides ranged from pro-Israel and anti-abortion
# arguments to jokes about AIDS and graphic epithets about gays.
# Eventually he signed on to a nationwide computer network using his
# terminal at Sun and typed what he described as "some very extremely
# nasty stuff" on a bulletin board used primarily to exchange
# sarcastic insults and vitriolic humor.
#
# A Sun spokeswoman said the company would not comment.
#
# The case raises interesting questions about the increasing
# popularity of electronic bulletin boards and message systems on
# which users can type all kinds of outrageous statements without
# having to look their audience in the eye. Stromer says he always
# signed his own name to his messages and never meant to threaten
# anyone personally. But several legal experts say that
# anti-discrimination laws require management to step in when
# employees create an atmosphere that is hostile or intimidating to
# any group.
#
# "An occasional joke, maybe," said Patricia Shiu, staff attorney at
# the non-profit Employment Law Center in San Francisco. "But if an
# employer (allows) that kind of thing repeatedly, he exposes himself
# to liability for allowing a discriminatory environment."
#
# In his lawsuit, Stromer claims his bosses violated his right to free
# expression. He said he was just trying to liven up the
# conversations that Sun employees routinely conduct on a variety of
# email bulletin boards. And he compared himself with comedian Lenny
# Bruce. (Stromer said he had been scolded before but he drew his
# first written reprimand from Sun for a joke about AIDS and Magic
# Johnson, and another about AIDS and anal sex.) "This type of
# exchange... is deemed by Sun management to show poor judgment and
# blatant disregard for the feelings of coworkers," said the
# reprimand.
#
# By Stromer's account, he was fired after he used his work computer
# to hurl messages including graphic epithets at gays across a
# national network. The network automatically identified the messages
# as coming from a Sun computer. Stromer is acting as his own
# attorney. He said he sought help from the American Civil Liberties
# Union and a conservative foundation but both told him his employer
# had a right to regulate his speech on company computers.
#
# = = =
#
# [Typed in by sf at dec and reposted w/o his permission, which is why
# I'm leaving his name off / JBL]
--
# Aha. So _that's_ the reason he ceased to infest alt.flame! I just
# thought that his net access had been stripped, like a kook of a
# different stripe (I'm referring to the dreaded David J. Rasmussen,
# of course), but I probably just ran into his post-Sun output
# instead. One does wonder how working for a company justifies the
# posting of such crapola via a system the company owns. Ah well...
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* Douglas Bell (SPACE BANG! [ !]):
Posts promos for his Wonderful SF Series to rec.arts.sf.written and
several other places. Has no sense of plot, editing, storyline, or
what will attract readers. Has no clue, and resists all attempts to
force one on him. Doesn't listen to criticism - the sure sign of a
never-to-be-published-and-never-to- know-why writer... Has shown
signs recently of possessing a slight sense of humor though.
Contrib. post:
# I'd like to apologize in advance...
#
#
# Douglas K. Bell <dougbell@netcom.com> wrote:
#
# ) Ever enjoyed an SF series so much you couldn't wait to get the next
# ) book?!
#
# YES! I can't wait for the next Xanth novel!!!!!!
#
# ) Hi, I'm Doug Bell !
# ^^
# Hi, I'm Scott Drellishak, SPACE BANG!
#
# ) I've written a series of 6 books about INFINITY CITY, an incredible
# ) world in a black hole and the adventurers of its exciting people.
#
# Who would have believe that time dilation and death-by-tides could
# be SO MUCH FUN? Being crushed down to an infinitely dense point is
# the hoot of a lifetime!
#
# ) I'm amazed at how much you all are enjoying the stories!
#
# So am I. It's amazing to realize how much I can enjoy a story I've
# NEVER READ! We're *all* waiting in anticipation for you to tell us
# what our next opinion should be!
#
# ) Thanks for all your email support and comments!
# ) In the first book - "VAN GOGH IN SPACE" - an adventurer brings
# ) Vincent Van Gogh back from the ancient past to INFINITY CITY where
# ) he meets the "kind" of woman that has always caused him trouble...
#
# ...and the WACKY FUN never stops! (btw, I like the way you use
# "quotes" around the word "kind" -- this subtly but clearly lets "us"
# know that SOMETHING "WITTY" THIS WAY "COMES"! [nudge, nudge])
#
# ) If you want an email > > > > F R E E C O P Y < < < < of BOOK #1,
# ) just email me!
#
# (W H Y A R E W E S H O U T I N G?)
#
# ) The rest of the series is free by email, too!
#
# And worth every penny!
#
# ) You'll enjoy them all!
#
# It's MANDATORY! Just imagine what would happen to Doug's ego if you
# didn't!
#
# ) Writing this series over the years has been a sheer joy.
#
# Here, have a tissue...
#
# ). (I'm already well into book#7 - WASHINGTON & MOZART IN SPACE).
#
# I can hardly wait for book#8 -- I suggest HITLER & EVA IN SPACE.
# Or, dare I dream, DOUG BELL ADRIFT IN SPACE?
#
# ) Best of all, people have as much fun reading the books as I do
# ) writing them!
#
# It's true because Doug tells you it's true! And uses exclamation
# points to prove it!
#
# ) Doug Bell, Pleasanton, California USA
# ) DougBell@netcom.com
# ) Recent feedback:
#
# (which has appeared in the last 3 months' posts)...
#
# ) "Book six was fantastic! Loss, gain, mystery, and now the start of a
# ) war! I think you have just reached "Epic" proportions with this
# ) series of novels. I am really enjoying them. It has been great
# ) reading your stuff..." - Joshua R. Nelson
#
# I agree! And when Josh and I get out of high school, we're going to
# grow up to be JUST LIKE DOUG!
--
Oy. Posts as dougbell@netcom.com (Douglas K. Bell).
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* Lt. Wilkes (My brain will be back in December:)
Perennial alt.slack/alt.religion.kibology poster. Maintains that
his brain and body are in two separate places, and that one of them
recently visited Pluto for reasons having to do with the Fungi from
Yuggoth; not a loon, but does a darn good imitation of one, and is
extremely fun to watch. A candidate for the new Kibo (don't ask...)
[he lost, by the way]. Responsible for the Don't Let Lieutenant
Wilkes Breed Society of alt.slack and alt.discordia, which has
apparently failed in its purpose, due to the Lt.'s new girl(?)friend
jack [no it's not short for jackie]. Unfortunately, jack seems to
have disappeared back into the Vague Morass Of Short-lived Usenet
Posters. Used to post from delphi.com (being one of its two saving
virtues at that time); now posts as ltwilkes@netcom.com
(Lt. Wilkes).
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* Hoyt Stearns (Since space is quantized into units of 45.58nm,...):
from sci.physics, proponent of "larsonian physics", which seems to
think space and time are quantized, and that the universe is 3D and
Euclidean... Posts to s.p & alt.sci.physics.new-theories, with
followups to sci.physics or sci.astro (to reap the ensuing flamewar)
[deponent got caught this way once... grrrr]. Definitely a loon.
Posts as hoyt@isus.UUCP (Hoyt A. Stearns jr.).
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* David de Hilster ("special relativity does not apply to decays"):
Another classic crackpot (again, in the scientific sense). Posts to
alt.sci.physics.new-theories about Autodynamics, a theory which is
supposed to explain particle decays without invoking neutrinos;
unfortunately, this can't be done without violating momentum
conservation, and David tries to get around this by invoking a
different kinetic energy equation and energy imparted from an
"external medium". Is also against the neutrino detection from the
supernova at Kamiokande. Autodynamics is apparently a creation of a
Dr. Carezani; David has at least one supporter at his site (Amnon
Meyers). Posts as David de Hilster
<hilster@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>.
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* Suzanne Forgach:
Contrib. posts:
# And, since there is a distinct lack of female kooks (even fewer than
# one would expect from the low proportion of female posters) I think
# Suzanne Fogarch (sp?) should be added. She's the only person I
# remember seeing post something positive about Jesse Helms. Even the
# right wing nutters that abound on the net find him an embarassment.
--
# A talk.abortion regular. I've never seen Ms. Forgach, though I did
# have an office down the hall from her at NOAO for a while. A 'w' on
# the computer she was logged into would always show 'vn
# talk.abortion'... I suspect 'prolific' might be a more accurate tag
# than 'kook'.
--
# I remember Suzanne Forgach from way back in the dark days when I
# used to post to talk.abortion. (I got better.) I don't know if she's
# still kicking around, or if she was or is known on other groups.
# I'm not sure if she really qualifies as a loon. Her postings
# reflected highly conservative, religious beliefs, but being on the
# right wing isn't an instant ticket to the insane asylum. She tended
# to completely ignore logic when arguing (I vaguely recall that she
# once tried to argue that homosexuality was wrong because other
# animals didn't do it, and then when contradicted, turned around and
# accused people of trying to justify homosexuality by saying that
# other animals did it), but talk.abortion has never been a
# particularly rational debating club.
--
# If you've ever seen any posts by Steve Chaney, Ralph Taite or David
# J. Rassmussen on t.a., you'll know how obvious a statement this is.
# Ugh.
--
# Wait ... is she the one who tried to insist that her views were
# backed by science, claiming support from a PhD in astro, until
# someone actually checked her credentials?
--
# Back from the dim mists of time when I once frequented talk.abortion
# along with an excess-O and a lamented late friend (using the same
# monicker), I remember well Suzanne "A circle has two sides!"
# Forgach. However, I doubt if she counts as a loon. If anything,
# she is just someone who have an interesting definition of "logic".
# Good for a chuckle from time to time, and I remember that the joke
# above was in reference to an incident in which she said that a
# circle obviously has two sides, since there is an inside and an
# outside! She always draws fire from the high-temperature flamers of
# talk.abortion, although not all of them flame so well. Amusing,
# sometimes ("When my cat coughs up a hairball it makes a 'Forgach'
# sound." .... James Purdon), but mostly out of proportion to what
# Suzanne deserves. She even had a sense of humour, I realised once
# with a shock ("To drieux: .......... with great loathing, Sieuxanne
# Forgach").
--
# Forgach is still her usual cheerful self, though I tend to agree
# with you she's not a loon -- she's just brimming with plain hatred
# for a lot of people. (You may remember her comment about women who
# have pre-marital sex being lower than prostitutes, which comment I
# took issue with.)
--
# Well, she's certainly not as crazy as our dear friend Michael
# Courtney, but her views tend to be so fanatically pro-Catholic that
# she even has little (if any) time for rational discourse with
# Protestants such as Steve Adams when discussing one of her favorite
# bugaboos. I'm referring to differences in theological outlook, of
# course.
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* Mark V. Shaney:
Contrib. post:
# Do you have MVS (Mark V. Shaney) in your list? MVS dates back to
# about 1985, and was probably the first of the "automated posters" on
# Usenet. It would take postings from net.singles and generate new
# postings by combining sentence fragments in almost-understandable
# ways, by using Markov Chain techniques. (Note the similarity
# between Mark V. Shaney and Markov Chain.) It was written up in the
# Mathematical Games section of Scientific American a few years ago.
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* Sean P. `Bandwidth' Ryan:
has his own alt.flame.* group. Jumps into the middle of flamewars,
generally without checking the waters first...
Contrib. post (one guess as to whom it's from):
# alt.flame.sean-ryan: The first .flame group to be named after a
# net.personality (though not the first flame group). Created by Eric
# Olson (though forged in my name) in response to an ongoing flame war
# which had been going on for the previous nine months in the local
# newsgroup ua.flame. Specifically, I challenged Eric on the fact
# that he only pretended to be a news administrator but actually
# wasn't, when some people were insisting that I be given my own ua.*
# group but weren't able to do anything about it.
--
Posts as fsspr@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Sean P. Ryan).
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* OMEGA.MAN :
From rec.arts.comics.misc.
Contrib. post:
# Doesn't crosspost. Also doesn't post much, but when he _does_ post
# you tend to see 50+ articles all at once, with subjects all in caps.
# Most of the time, he follows up to long-since-dead threads. He's
# famous for threatening to physically maim a well-respected RACM
# member, and commonly follows up to articles from that member by
# posting insults. At this point in time, he mostly gets ignored by
# the folks on RACM.
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* Richard Sexton:
Contrib. post:
# So how could you forget Richard Sexton, the guy who created
# sci.aquaria, rec.aquaria and alt.aquaria?
--
# The Net is full of nasty group creation fights. I was hoping this
# wouldn't turn into one. Bear with me, it has applicability to this
# fracas, while I reminisce about one of my favorites: the aquarium
# reorg about 5 years ago [1989]. In the beginning there was only
# alt.aquaria. Some sites didn't (and still don't) carry the alt
# hierarchy and the group was up to some 40 postings a day, so it was
# felt that it should be placed under a more mainstream hierarchy.
#
# To make a long, bitter story short, 99% of the folks thought
# rec.aquaria was a good idea but there was this one guy in particular
# who just couldn't abide the thought that his endeavor was a mere
# recreational hobby; no, his was a scientific persuit of Truth and
# only sci.aquaria would suffice. When his vote was shot down a
# jillion to one against (he never resorted to vote stacking) he still
# created his pet group because, after all, anybody can do so.
#
# Thus, three aquarium groups exist today. Alt never dried up the way
# it was supposed to and carries about half the ~100 aquarium
# postings/day, rec carries the other half. Some people broadcast
# their postings to both alt and rec and occasionally even to sci as
# well but the amount of original traffic on sci is, oh, 2 postings a
# week.
--
# [Sexton says:] I dropped off the net 3 years ago after being on for
# about 4 years and I noticed it was slanted very much in favour of
# recent events and a lot of what happened "in my day" has been
# forgotten already.
#
# Anyway, I've updated (corrected) a few entries. Use them if you
# want, ignore them if you must, do what you will.
#
# If you have any questions about any of the older ones I have a
# pretty good memory about that period.
#
# I can't believe Peter "duh" Silva is one of the "good" guys.
# Amazing. Oh well.. [and adds to/updates the above post - after
# all, he should know:]
#
# Noticing that there was no newsgroup for tropical fish wackos,
# Sexton posted to rec.pets and got 2 responses in 6 months (one of
# which was "get those fish out of here") and so proposed a newsgroup
# for aquaria. The vote failed by a 10% margin, so Bob Webber (see
# above) created alt.aquaria. Some sites didn't (and still don't)
# carry the alt hierarchy and the group was up to some 40 postings a
# day, but was not being propagated to Europe where the *really good
# stuff* in aquaria was going on.
#
# At around this time a vote for sci.military was held by Bill Thacker
# and passed, and Sexton concluded that if killing people was a
# science then so was keeping tropical fish; besides, sci.aquaria
# would make it to Europe. He followed the newsgroup creation
# guidelines, but they were unfortunately broken, as the guidelines
# said a discussion had to be held for two weeks, and it was, and the
# popular opinion was a zillion to 6 against. However it turned out
# the discussion phase was non-binding, so he went ahead and called
# the vote. Sexton had a lot of friends and they forged more yes
# votes than the detractors forged no votes. Since all the forgers
# were members of the old backbone cabal, the forgeries were rather
# skillfully done and never detected [until now, that is...].
#
# Seen by many as a debacle, and as a testament to the integrity of
# Gene Spafford (q.v.) (who took care of these things at the time) the
# group was created, although many sites either refused to honor the
# newgroup or aliased it to one of the other *.aquaria groups. Since
# the vote was at the time the largest in the history of usenet (938
# to 727 in favour) the newsgroup creation rules were changed and the
# 2/3 majority rule was added, among others. [...]
#
# This developed into a reputation for initiating newsgroups that
# nobody thought were a good idea, but somehow managed to pass a vote
# anyway, such as comp.fonts and alt.restaurants (although a vote was
# not strictly required in alt, it was almost universally though of as
# a bad idea; it was created anyway, and later made into a rec group).
#
# Sexton created alt.prose, and was disgusted when he found out it was
# for poetry, not prostitutes.
#
# Did not invent, but popularized, the practice of cross-posting to
# misc.test, to see if people were awake. They generally weren't.
#
# Was also responsible, rather indirectly, for all the alt.sex groups.
# In 1988, Sexton was showing Ralph Freidenberger how to post to
# usenet, as all Ralph knew how to do was follow-up posting. Sexton
# posted the message "I propose the newsfroup rec.fucking" to
# talk.bizarre with a local distribution. It should have stayed on
# the machine gryphon.com, but like so many of Sexton's posts there
# was a spelling error [I've cleaned those up here, says the
# FAQ-person]. Unfortunately the spelling error was in the
# "Distribution: local" header line, so the posting was sent out all
# over the world. This resulted in two things happening: first, other
# people thought rec.fucking would be a really good newsgroup,
# although the name should probably be changed to rec.sex, and second,
# the word "newsfroup" became part of the UseNet vernacular for
# apparently no good reason. The vote for rec.sex passed, but it was
# one of those groups (like comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac, which was
# proposed by Bob Webber as a "mainstream" talk.bizarre to accomodate
# Roger Carasso when he got his first account removed by UCLA) that
# the backbone refused to carry it. Brian Reid thus created alt.sex,
# and since there already was an alt.drugs, Reid also created
# alt.rock-n-roll to complete the triumvirate.
#
# Sexton also contributed the phrase *plonk* to the UseNet vernacular,
# as the sound of a person's name being dropped into his killfile.
#
# He used to post as richard@gryphon.com until gryphon and its owner
# died in 1990. He then surfaced for a while as phoboe@ccicpg.UUCP
# (Ned Phoboe) and later was traded by the Los Angeles Cabal in a
# second round draft choice, along with Bob Webber of New Jersey, to
# Canada in exchange for Brad Templeton of Waterloo, who is now in
# California, in 1990.
--
He can be reached these days at richard@panchax.gryphon.com (Richard
Sexton).
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* Frank Schaffer:
Contrib. post:
# A local loon is Frank Schaffer. Also known as Promillo. Among his
# merits are a .sig displaying an Iron Cross and a firing tank. He
# posts only to German newsgroups, such as de.soc.politik, de.soc
# verkehr (about traffic), and soc.culture german. His views are that
# of the reactionary right with special contempt for anyone who could
# impose a speed limit on an autobahn. He is also noted for using the
# proof by news headlines. Interestingly, examining the whole message
# ends up supporting the view of the other side. Never follows up to
# debunking, of course.
#
# His views and the story of his life have an uncanny resemblance to
# those of a fictional character, "Diederich Hessling", in a novel by
# Heinrich Mann.
--
Posts from promillo@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de .
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* Rich Holmes (mcmxciibo):
One of the Inner Circle on alt.fan.warlord; notable for his
derivative-Kibo middle name and for his rapier wit, as well as for
being able to stuff into a 4x80 .sig *all* of the following common
Blechy .Sig Fillers Used By The Clueless (as a response, apparently,
to Neil "YoYo" Pawson's saying it couldn't be done): one badly-drawn
ASCII Bart simpson, a sword, a Kibo number, the Vicki Robinson .sig
virus, a badly-drawn ASCII map of Australia (with Perth helpfully
indicated), an ASCII bicyclist, a rose, an Amiga check, a fnord, a
Rush quote, an obscure quote, lots of asterisks, no less than *10*
borders, and what appears to be a WordPerfect reference.
Unfortunately, this leaves no room for Captain Whitespace to
visit... uses it pretty much solely on alt.fan.warlord (q.v.)
though. Also legendary for being two or three of the most frequent
posters to the Morris Dance mailing list, under various addresses
(which led to a rumor that *everyone* there was him, and a "not Rich
Holmes" .sig virus).
Posts as rsholmes@gamera.syr.EDU (Rich 'mcmxciibo' Holmes); look for
it in the headers 'cuz there might be no room for it in the .sig ...
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* Even Steven on alt.sex.bondage:
Contrib. post:
# Even Steven has been posting lengthy arguments to a.s.b to the
# effect that all dominance/submission relationships are BAD and
# WRONG. He has mangled Noam Chomsky's concept of "Manufacturing
# Consent" (which argues that since Americans get skewed information
# on world events from the mass media, their 'consent' to the policies
# of their government is questionable) to mean that anyone's consent
# to any act may have been manufactured; specifically, that
# submissives consent to enter dom/sub relationships can never be
# 'genuine'. Submissives have argued with him at length, saying that
# they have freely chosen to live the lives they lead, to no avail.
--
Rants on the subject; not *immediately* obvious that something's a
bit off, but observation over time leads one to this conclusion, I'm
told. A minifaq is available. Posts as an6141@anon.penet.fi (Even
Steven).
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* Charles Newman (alt.fan.nicole.bobeck is *my* group, *miiiiine*!):
Infests rec.skate; newgroups badly named alt groups for figure
skaters and cancels people's posts in "his" groups, notably the FAQ
on killfiles posted to rec.skate by tweek@netcom.com. A John Palmer
(q.v.) wannabe. Responsible for the life and death of
alt.fan.cristi.yamaguchi(i) ... Also under the impression that a)
one *must* be "root" in order to forge mail or news on a Unix system
and b) there is a "delgroup" command that's applicable to Usenet...
Posts as newman@netcom.com (Charles Newman) [at present].
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* Bob Rahe ("Threat to USEnet"):
Contrib. post:
# One person I think deserves a mention in a list of net.loons is
# Mr. Bob Rahe. He popped up on alt.fan.dan-quayle over last summer
# ['93], with a sig file that read 'Save whales and kill babies? Don't
# Liberals just kill you', and every one of his posts went on about
# how abortion was horrible, even if the subject had only been
# mentioned in passing.
#
# This prompted a memorable post from his sysadmin, with the subject:
# line reading 'Bob Rahe - Threat to USEnet'. The sysadmin said that
# every subject he posted about in his home network ended up in a
# flamewar over abortion. The sysadmin concluded that Bob Rahe had a
# psychological need to go on and on about it, and was therefore
# deserving of protective status under the Americans with Disabilities
# Act.
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* Andrew Beckwith (Net.canary to the uranium mine that is UseNet):
Nominated for talk.bizarre's Mr. Clay Pigeon 1994; a user of erratic
spacing and, inappropriate comma's and apostrophes. Quote:
--
For your information, I Andrew Beckwith, live in Pittsburgh, Pa. My parents
live near Stanford University, Califorina.
Nice try. Merey off by almost 3000 miles.
Try again/
Andrew Beckwith
--
It's a bit difficult to follow his logic at times, but it does seem
to usually be present. Andrew's sysadmin appears to be fully Clued
about him (and says not to be concerned if he threatens to have your
net.access revoked...) - and has had to tell Andrew to please not
complain about people *not* sending him harrassing email... Is
*very* amusing if you follow along for a while, as much for the
responses he draws as for his posts. May be seen on alt.flame,
talk.bizarre, alt.usenet.kooks, etc. A Jpeg is available from
ftp.netcom.com : /pub/martinh (The Official Alt.FLame FTP and JPEG
archive site). The expression "Andrew Beckwith pities you" has come
into vogue on certain newsgroups to mean someone is *really* out of
it (enough so to be noticed by Andrew, you see)... Managed to
secure Kook-of-the-Month for May, 1994, awarded by alt.usenet.kooks
(*the* group to lurk in if you're interested in the inexplicable
side of Usenet posting...). Posts as "Andrew W. Beckwith"
<ab7b+@andrew.cmu.edu>.
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* Joachim Martillo Ajami (multiple middle names elided):
Contrib. post:
# who, until approximately [1992], polluted most soc.culture.* groups
# with diatribes as to (pick the culture)'s primitiveness and need for
# recolonization by the enlighted West.
--
# > Does anyone remember Juan Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami? (I may have
# > got the name slightly wrong) Is he still around?
#
# Oh, I _do_ remember Martillo. He occasionally posts to
# talk.politics.mideast, but he seems to've (thankfully) ceased
# infesting the soc.culture newsgroups he used to turn up at.
#
# > About 3 years ago he used to post on various politics groups:
# > usually deliberately inflammatory stuff like "Time to Suspend and
# > Dismantle India". Basic view-point seemed to be a very right wing
# > "America can do nothing wrong".
#
# At one time, Mark Crispin (who seems to've disappeared from the net
# entirely) referred to him as a LaRouchie, although I'm not sure how
# that connects to Martillo's "the Third World is inhabited by savages
# and colonialism is good for them" party line, which is something he
# seems to repeat just about every time he posts.
#
# > When I once took him to task for a particularly outrageous round of
# > this I got a barely-coherent e-mail accusing me of favouring
# > Stalinism and baby-killing.
#
# You actually got _Email_ from him? Hmmm. He never bothered mailing
# me after I flamed him on a few occasions...
#
# > The "Ajami" part of the name appeared _ex_nihilo_ one day after he
# > claimed to have had a Moslem great-uncle in Palestine who was
# > murdered for collaborating with the Jews (or something like that).
# > He also showed up on soc.religion.islam, but I don't know what his
# > religious views are.
#
# Presumably orthodox Loonyism. He seems the type. >:)
--
# > Does anyone remember Juan Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami? (I may have
# > got the name slightly wrong)
#
# He used lots of variants, starting as Joachim Martillo and later
# spelling his first name Yakim or Yehoyaqim as the fancy took him and
# adding the Ajami.
#
# > Is he still around? [...] Basic viewpoint seemed to be a very right
# > wing "America can do nothing wrong". [...]
#
# Haven't heard from him in a while. He apparently got an article
# published in a prestigious neo-conservative magazine (Commentary?),
# which says a lot about their editorial standards...
#
# > I don't know what his religious views are.
#
# He is or was an atheist Sephardic Jew. He mildly despised religious
# Jews and Christians and regarded Muslims as subhuman vermin.
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* Mark "We must colonize Venus right NOW!" Sobolewski:
Contrib. post:
# from sci.space (where I only lurked, never posted) who is said to
# frequent groups such as alt.feminism and soc.men, spouting non-stop
# that men have it a lot worse than women in this society and how
# women is always trying to exploit him;
--
# mark's most charming habit in soc.women and alt.feminism is his
# creative definition of the word "feminist." if you try to argue
# with him by pointing out that you are a feminist and you don't do
# [whatever thing he's accusing feminists of this week], he simply
# claims that you're NOT a feminist.
#
# at one point, he claimed that his definition of a feminist was "a
# woman who makes more than $20K/year." inexplicable.
#
# but i don't think he really qualifies as a net.loon. he's more of a
# net.butthead.
--
Maybe I'm reading the wrong newsgroups, but Sobolewski seems to have
disappeared...
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* Kevin Darcy (Kibbles):
Contrib. post:
# who seem to draw fire from all flamers alike on any group (when I
# last dipped into soc.men, I saw a lengthy flamewar with him
# committed firmly on some side) but actually have a measure of
# intelligence (at least as of 1991, when I last posted actively in
# any group except rec.games.*);
--
# of course, these days in t.a, Darcy is just a minor irritation
# compared to the all-out attempt to see how many variations of the
# same one-note song Keegan (q.v.) can devise and post. It's almost
# enough to make me wish Ralph Taite would come back...
--
# Keven Darcey AKA "Kibbles" (ask Ted Frank for details...) Loon 2nd
# Class, with dog food cluster.
--
Seen most recently on alt.config arguing *passionately* against the
creation of a moderated alt.dads-rights (apparently feeling that
*he'd* not be allowed to post there, so it was Blatantly Unfair).
Posts from kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy).
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+ James Keegan:
Contrib. post:
# who must qualify as a BOT of some sort, flaming away at anything at
# a drop of a hat and not necessarily at any particular doctrine or
# ideology-- when I made the last-mentioned dip into soc.men a
# killfile for crossposts nailed about 500 posts out of 1,000 with him
# in a flamefest of some kind involving people who looks like
# pro-choicers from talk.abortion (i.e. people who he was _nominally_
# on the same side with).
--
# hey! be nice to keegan! when i told him i had the flu, he fedexed
# me a box of chocolates!
--
He's back, and is at number 6 on the #-of-articles lists... looks
like he's frequenting talk.abortion, alt.feminism, soc.men,
soc.women, and alt.abortion.inequity (and fails the 50% test, by the
way: his percentages in the news.lists postings add up to > 50%,
indicating massive concentration on only a few newsgroups), as well
as alt.usenet.kooks. *Not* entertaining to watch, as his followups
tend to be endless repetitions on one basic theme, to be one-liners,
and to have "creative editing" of the followed-up text. Has his own
frequently-Tim-Pierce-rmgrouped alt.fan.* newsgroup. Posts as
keegan@helios.ACM.RPI.EDU (James G. Keegan Jr.) or
keegan@nyx10.cs.du.edu (james g keegan jr).
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* Jim Bowery ("Are YOU of Jewish heritage?"):
Seen in all the usual anti-semitic-suspect groups: alt.activism,
alt.conspiracy, alt.revisionism (plus talk.politics.guns for some
reason). Can be easily baited by Ted Frank. Promotes the "idea of
genetic separatism": that fine upright Nordic genes are in danger of
being degraded by secular Jewish genes and therefore the possessors
of the former need to keep themselves away from the possessors of
the latter, as near as I can make out. Talk of him once proposing a
colony on Mars, free of secular Jewish influences, has been flying
on alt.usenet.kooks; apparently also once claimed Rush Limbaugh was
part of the Jewish media conspiracy. A sample random quote, the
first one I ran across on alt.revisionism while puttering through
the newsgroups:
--
# > When will our people wise up and learn from history???
#
# When we cease being educated and morally manipulated via media and
# academia by Jews.
#
# When will that happen? When we form a society from which Jews are
# excluded with extreme prejudice.
#
# The question the becomes, how does one avoid the definition of
# "extreme prejudice" as it is used in intelligence circles: murder.
# [...]
#
# Our main mistakes in this New World were that we didn't include, in
# our constitution, a genetic definition of citizenship and a
# prohabition against imported labor (ie: slaves and migrant workers).
# I would even go so far as to put a prohabition against tourists of
# any kind because the key to maintanence of the northern genetic
# constitution is avoidance of social contact with those of southern
# genetic constition just as their key to survival is avoidance of
# military or violent confrontation with those of northern genetic
# constitution.
--
Posts as jabowery@netcom.com (Jim Bowery).
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* Rich Rosen:
Contrib. post:
# I just realized the list is also missing Rich Rosen, one of the
# earliest net.legends, who back around 1986 produced so many
# voluminous postings that there were rumors of rooms of people
# writing for him.
--
# Can someone write up something on Rich Rosen, immortalized in the
# expire man page of bnews?
#
# BTW, does anyone know how he got there? I recall once suggesting
# using expire to delete all his articles (and getting flamed by him
# for this), and many years (and a few releases) later I noticed that
# he was *in* the expire man page. Was he always there?
--
# How can a Net.Legends list omit Rich Rosen? I think he still holds
# the record for amount of spontaneous, germane text in a single
# newsgroup (net.philosophy).
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* Doctress ("Lovolution") Neutopia:
Posts on The Gaia Religion and Neutopian Thought... has a scheme for
planetary salvation involving arcologies, feminist lovolution,
worship of Gaia. Can be seen in alt.censorship, among other places.
Contrib. post:
# lbsisk on BIX (lbsisk@BIX.com) wrote:
#
# : I was not being critical of your intelligence, though your thought
# : processes seem irrational, but of your belief system.
#
# To form a new religion is a new belief system which is what I have
# done in my dissertation.
#
# : I do have a question or two, though. What is the university which
# : is purportedly going to award you a doctorate, and in which field of
# : study is the doctorate being awarded? If you wouldn't mind posting
# : the name of the primary person who supervised your work, I would
# : like to contact him or her to ask a couple of other questions. Feel
# : free to respond by email if you prefer.
#
# The doctorate I have been awarded is from the School of Education in
# future studies. The dissertation is a work of prophecy. I am
# dealing with the occult powers. Normally, traditional institions do
# not give revolutionary thinkers degrees for their occult knowledge,
# but I am a rare individual.
--
# {disclaimer: the following statements are, actually, true}
#
# I have actually met this woman !
#
# She provided quite a bit of entertainment at a meeting of our
# Graduate Student Senate last semester. Specifically, she debated
# with the UMass Chancellor, David Scott, about how his vision for the
# university's next 20 years was flawed because it didn't involve
# EcoCities or the Information Lovolution. They were both mostly
# spouting hot air, which is why it was so much fun. (Also, he did a
# good job of appearing to take her seriously.)
#
# The Future Studies Dept. apparently was cut several years ago
# (that's why her doctorate is actually an Ed.D.). My first thought
# was, of course: "This just goes to show that there's no future in
# future studies."
--
Her thesis can be found by ftp at bertha.pyramid.com,
/pub/leri/Neutopia; those with Mosaic/WWW/Lynx access may check out
http://xville.com/xville/. May soon have her own newsgroup,
alt.society.neutopia, to talk about the coming lovolution on. Posts
as neutopia@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Doctress Neutopia).
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* Carl J Lydick:
Frequent poster to sci.skeptic, sci.astro, talk.origins, and
alt.folklore.science; has a memorable .sig, which is about VAXen,
and about three lines too long. Is notable for a) a sometimes
abrasive posting style - he does *not* suffer fools gladly, and will
mercilessly flame Velikovskianites in particular into little
manna-bearing ashes, and b) being nearly always right when he *does*
correct someone. Watching him for a while can be fun. Currently
taking on Ted Holden (q.v.) in talk.origins ... Posts as
carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick).
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* Jai ("The Voice Of Mantra Corporation") Maharaj:
Apparently posts a lot to alt.astrology, rec.food.veg,
soc.culture.indian, and sci.med.nutrition; is a Vedic astrology
follower and vegetarian. Will accuse people of "LIBEL", or of
sending (non-existent) mailbombs. Posts little VEDA extracts. Has
an alt.fan.jai-maharaj newsgroup. Is currently involving
alt.culture.hawaii in his crossposts for some reason. A miniFAQ is
available. Posts as cy717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jai Maharaj)
(email: jaimaharaj@mcimail.com).
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* Publius:
Apparently a fixture on alt.atheism; stands out enough from the
crowd there to be noticeable, which takes a bit of doing. May be
partly responsible for some of gate.net's reputation...
Contrib. post:
# This person has long ago passed the net.loon point and is cruising
# easily through his own little net.psychosis. This person posts
# under the name Publius from <publius@inca.gate.net>.
#
# Are there specific criteria a net.moron must meet to enter the halls
# of the famous? I, or indeed anyone over on alt.atheism, will be
# happy to tell you about Publius (except maybe Publius himself). For
# the record, I think he long ago passed the Mozumder mark, and
# Mozumder is in the FAQ... In fact, ridicule of Publius became so
# great at one point that it primarily brought about the creation of
# alt.atheism.satire, which has played host to two stories about
# Publius.
--
Posts as publius@inca.gate.net (Publius).
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* David DeLaney ("I'm *not* everywhere, I'm *not*!"):
A relative newbie (10/93); notable mainly for his posting volume and
his nearly-unbreakable habit of using the a.f.u ever-changing middle
name. Tended to post in quantities greater than Serdar Argic (q.v.)
did, but only by posting mainly to a vast quantity of
mostly-unrelated groups; at one point out-argued Dick Depew. Had a
dense, turgid, and somewhat scatterbrained writing style.
Responsible for at least one version of the Net.Legends FAQ;
opinions on this FAQ vary, all the way from "hysterically funny..."
to "A pack of *lies*!!". Could be seen on any of several groups,
including a.f.u, rec.arts.sf.written, news.newusers.questions,
soc.motss, and alt.religion.kibology, as well as (once in a while)
any of a great number of smaller-volume groups. Claims *not* to
have read all of the net, as this is clearly impossible nowadays;
known to have followed at least six or seven high-volume groups
closely, without killfiles.
Unfortunately, the twin forces of ever-exponentially-increasing
newsgroup volume and impending joblessness forced his withdrawal
from the net in August '94. May be back someday, but probably more
"someday" than "soon"...
Posted as dbd@{martha|panacea|enigma|utkux1}.utcc.utk.edu or
eb359@cleveland.freenet.edu (David [B.] DeLaney).
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* Honorable Mention:
Ronald van Loon, maintainer of Motif++; quote: "I hate to jump in
like this, but it makes one wonder. What do people have against
Loons ? I have been a Loon almost all my life and I am as sane as a
dodo's navel on ice." Included for obvious reasons... Posts as
rvloon@motif.hacktic.nl (Ronald van Loon).
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5.0 Also Nominated, but with little or no information:
======================================================
* John DiNardo: (whose voluminous multipart postings inspired a
subject line "Part 1: Is the CIA putting acid in John Dinardo's
Coffee?")
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* Stephen Chaney:
Contrib. post:
# Second-handly, I got the report also from talk.abortion (after I
# stopped posting there) of one Stephen Chaney, who seem to consider
# himself an airplane of some sort and runs around making "whoosh"
# sounds (I am not sure of the details but he is reputedly sticking to
# alt.fan.rush-limbaugh nowadays).
--
# He's not even there very much, now. He retreated from there to
# spending his time on IRC, and apparently is marrying (or has
# married, already) a student at E. New Mexico U. he met on IRC.
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* David J. Rasmussen (thanks for not killing me, mommy!):
Contrib. post:
# Actually, if ever there was a certified net.loon in talk.abortion,
# I'm surprised you missed the obvious choice: David J. "thanks for
# not killing me, mommy!" Rasmussen. I'd vote for him, but then I may
# be biased by the fact that he actually traveled all the way to
# Houston from Raleigh to confront me -- and he couldn't figure out
# that I was normally home asleep at the hour he showed up at the RUPD
# offices demanding they arrest me.
#
# (It made my day to be awakened by a late-afternoon phone call from
# an RUPD officer asking if I knew anyone by DJR's name, and when I
# answered that I did, being informed that he was on campus looking
# for me. 1992 May 27 -- a date to remember, for sure.)
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* Dave Nalle:
And there is always Dave Nalle, on the r.g.frp.* groups, who KNOWS
the True Way of Gaming.
Contrib. post:
# Ah, yes. Nalle created and is marketting his own frp system. He
# is... rather intolerant of criticism on his system, but I've never
# looked at the system. In a fascinating tautology, I refuse to look
# at his system because of the way he deals with posts which criticize
# it. A great reminder to those who think PR is unimportant.
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* Han de Bruijn:
Contrib. post:
# Used to post to sci.math and cause a lot of heated discussions with
# his "A little bit of physics would be NO idleness in mathematics"
# threads. He apparently was told to stop posting by his employer,
# and began writing a 'Series of Unified Numerical Analysis' (SUNA) -
# I didn't read them, so they might not be loon articles,
# though. Unfortunately, I couldn't find his own ftp archive, which
# should be in the Netherlands, and his postings of suna are nowadays
# very rare.
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* Mr. Lionel Tun:
of talk.origins and ForTun Cookie Quotes; also of uk.misc . Posts
as (apparently) lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun), if this isn't a
different Lionel Tun entirely.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
* Kalki Dasa:
also of talk.origins...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
* Jeff X. Mink (I am a false prophet): ?
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* Geoff Miller:
Contrib. email:
# > *Who* ees dees Geoff Miller person? Data, I need more data, Captain!
#
# Seriously??? I saw an alt.peeves FAQ on alt.humor.b-o-u that called
# him the mayor of alt.peeves... uncontested, which says something. I
# first ran across him when message #1 on
# alt.current-events.wtc-bombing was GM SCREAMING that we should nuke
# Mecca during holy week, as retaliation. He's supposed to have
# invented 'squicking'-- fucking a hole you cut in the skull of your
# victim. Let me see if I can find a sample of his art...
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* Kenneth Arndt:
apparently from talk.abortion.
Contrib. post:
# And I should point out that a couple of nights ago ABC's Nightline
# ran a report on the "deadly force" branch of the anti-abortion
# movement. At one point they showed a list of people who had signed
# a declaration that any force necessary, including homicide, is
# justified against abortionists. Among the signatures was one
# Kenneth Arndt. Remember him?
--
# The most magnificent piece of his writing I have ever read was
# posted to net.motss (I _think_ it was pre-Great-Renaming), and
# titled "The Monkey and the Beachball". I would be VERY grateful to
# see that again, or to know how to contact Mr. Arndt in hopes that he
# can provide it. Splendid, simply, horrifically splendid....
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well Jesus Monroy Jr will always have a place in the global killfile
[surely "heart"?] of many readers of the comp hierarchy (especially
comp.os.*).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
# When I used to read uk.* (I actually live in the UK, don't be misled
# by the hostname), Ken Johnson stuck out in my mind for being a
# pretty froody dude; he even had an alt.fan.* group created in his
# honour, but then he seemed to disappear... must have got a better
# job, or something. I don't suppose regional groups qualify for the
# list though.
--
Posts to talk.bizarre ...
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* Davorin Dujomvic (sp?)
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* Jonathon E.D. Richmond (How many jews does it take to shut down a newsgroup): ?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
* Don_-_Showen:
from sci.skeptic. Posts as Don_-_Showen@cup@portal.com; the "_-_"
appears to be a cup.portal.com artifact...
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* George Carter:
Contrib. post:
# On that note, I would like to nominate George Carter. He has been
# ranting, raving, and carry-on consistantly for quite some time now.
# He has earn his own spot in the comp.sys.hp.* FAQ and probably has
# more kill files with his name in it than any.
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* Herman Rubin (Modern programming languages aren't what I need): ?
Contrib. post:
# Rubin has strong feelings about all kinds of things--Bayesian
# probability, the proper role of a statistical consultant, space
# exploration, medicine.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
* Tony Hollick ("Photon energies are quantised" & "My Doctor told
me the KGB killed my parents"):
Posts as anduril@cix.compulink.co.uk; a UK phenomenon.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Maybe it reflects bad early reading habits, but the first newsgroups
# I was aware of devoted to net personalities were not the Kibo
# groups. They were alt.rissa and alt.weemba. You could include
# Rissa and Weemba, or was their prominence not sufficient for your
# list?
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* RICHH: ?
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6.0 Things We Could Have Called This But Didn't:
================================================
Net.Loons FAQ
Net.Celebrities
Net.Personalities
Butterfly.Net
Net Butterflies
Net.Prophets.and.Losses (The (Un)Balance(d) Sheet)
From the Depths of the Net
Jane's Guide to Birdwatching on the Net
At Large in the Net
If You Thought AFU Was Weird...
net.30
Pick of the Litter
Catch of the Day(s)
Caught in the Net
Sounds Fishy To Me
UseLessNet
While Trolling Thru the Net One Day
Post.Holes
Anti.Matters
net.weight (Contents May Have Settled During Shipping)
Net.Infamous.Posters
UseNUTS (Dan "Which makes the rest of us UseBOLTS" Case)
net.singularities ("Isn't that where Kibo is dividing Spot by zero?" "WAAAAAH!")
Netorious / Net.Notorious
net.pinatas
Spot the Net.Loony
Canadian Coins Explained
Infamous.net
Cranks and their Cases
High Weirdness By Email (it was already taken, unfortunately)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
7.0 Credits:
============
This FAQ would not have been possible without several people: Bill
vanHorne, the original "volunteer" to write it; the person who said
"we should write a FAQ about this" when the question came up for the
nth time "who *was* McElwaine, anyway, and why are you all still
talking about him?"; the good people on alt.folklore.urban and
alt.folklore.computers, and elsewhere, who contributed to the Call
for Loons thread (many of whose posts are quoted here, with credit
given below); Dave DeLaney, FAQ-gatherer, who in a moment of
insanity volunteered to help Bill; people all over UseNet who
critiqued individual bits when presented; Daniel J. Karnes, who did
more than *anyone* else to popularize the FAQ; and of course, the
Net.Legends themselves, without whom none of this would have been
possible (or necessary).
Contributing were (whether they know it or not): Kibo, Ted Frank,
Peter Trei, Larry Wall, Jeremy Reimer, Lewis Stiller, Joel Furr,
Andrew Bulhak, Sean P. Ryan, Jack Sarfatti, Dmitri Vulis; james
dolan, Sea Wasp (Ryk E Spoor), Don Porges, Dan Case, Lee Rudolph,
Bill Sinkins, Stephen Watson, Scott H. Mullins, Paul Tomblin,
RICHARD JOHN AKIS, Bob Tinsley, Thomas C. Allard, Sean Malloy, Dik
T. Winter, David Lesher, John Gilmore, Eddie Saxe, Mike Godwin,
Charlie Gibbs, Mark Eckenwiler, Peter Lindsey, Scott Forbes, Marcelo
Magnasco, Pat Hayes, Mike Swaim, Jonathan Papai, Jason R. Heimbaugh,
Mark Brader, 5150 (Ron Echeverri), Rob Jellinghaus, Arne Adolfsen,
Ariel Faigon, Matthew B. Landry, Chris Lewis, Jim Wise, Perry
Metzger, Chandra L. Morgan-Henley, Henry Robertson, The_Doge, Mark
McCullough, Iain Sinclair, Peter D. Hampe, David_Moursund, Mary
Shafer, Bernd Meyer, Jason Durbin, Robbie Westmoreland, Bill
Duetschler, Jamie R. McCarthy, Barry Shein, Steven Miale, Tom Lane,
Steve Hayman, thomas a lloyd, Christopher Neufeld, Snakes of Medusa
(mathew), Thomas Jelonek, Bill Bogstad, Curt Hagenlocher, Richard
Trott, Jim Jewett, John Ockerbloom, Raphael Carter, Chris Krolczyk,
Edward C. Bennett, Richard Caley, Paul O'Brien, Jim Davis, Brendan
Hassett, Bill Irion, Timo Salmi, Joseph M. Saul, Scott Drellishak,
Faisal Nameer Jawdat, john baez, Greg Hudson, Mike Mcnally, Ken
Shirriff, Alan Jaffray, Greg Galcik, yangboy (B.Y.), Trygve Lode,
Eric Jaron Stieglitz, Bill Nelson, Joel B. Levin, Patrick
L. Humphrey, Brad Allen, Robin Chauhan, Ketil M. Malde, Ben Jackson,
Nick Szabo, Theo Mora, Matt Brown, Mitchell Porter, Brad `Squid'
Shapcott, David Boothroyd, Guy Harris, eric schwartz, moxie, Thom
Grace, Bob Ingria, Kelly Bert Manning, Patricia O Tuama, Gregory
G. "Wolfe" Woodbury, Jack Campin, Jorn Barger, FJ!! van Wingerde,
Lloyd Wood, Steven Case (?), Dave Fischer, John William Chambless,
David Casseres, Gary L. Dare, Bruce Ediger, Gary Lewandowski, Ted
Faber, Keith Rogers, Lewis McCarthy, Keith Lim, Alec Habig, G. L.
Sicherman, Eli Brandt, Toby Koosman, Claudio Calvelli, Thomas
Koenig, David Goldfarb, Charles D. Roten, Alexandre Pechtchanski,
Mark Meyer, Stacy Prowell, Matt McIrvin, an967@anon.penet.fi, and
Warren Burstein of the four-legged shin, who claims the "It's always
September" quote. If you're on this list, you contributed or posted
*something*; good luck in finding it... if you'd rather your
*particular* here-included email contribution not appear here, even
anonymously, contact me (emailed legal threats excluded; I'm
counting posts as "fair game")...
Corrections, updates, new sightings of little-known legends, new
nominations, etc., may be posted to alt.usenet.kooks; crossposting
to one of alt.folklore.urban, alt.religion.kibology, or
alt.folklore.computers would be nice. Also note that
martha.utcc.utk.edu, where dbd usually posts from, is officially Not
Involved in this, and enigma contains only *pointers* to the info;
if you wanna complain to someone, see below.
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