> skiing enthusiast banned by court order in 1999 from posting on the Usenet discussion group "rec.skiing.alpine", after engaging in a flame war with other online posters. The heated exchanges lasted for months, eventually escalating into death threats, until a police detective from Seattle posted a request for all involved to calm down. All involved did except Abraham...
I'm sorry, this was probably annoying to all involved, but also so hilarious. Not least of which picturing a detective, who joined the force thinking he was going to solve murders and maybe even get a lead on D.B. Cooper sighing as he posted on a message board.
Reading one of the original threads involving Scott is...really something. Boy, the early internet was very weird.
Also, that dude is completely nuts.
bediger4000 4 days ago [-]
I'm going to disagree with the summary of Serdar Argic. My belief is that the Turkish government financed a grad student at University of Minnesota, Ahmet Cosar, to do the spamming. It is as well known that Uunet, and early ISP, had a "pink contract" with Cosar that allowed him to spam. Cosar lost his student visa, had to return to Turkey.
chmod775 28 minutes ago [-]
Most of these are negative in some way, except for the "Other personalities" section.
There's a lesson here somewhere.
duodecimal 1 hours ago [-]
I'm starting to think Archimedes Plutonium was wrong about his Plutonium Atom Totality conjecture.
JackFr 45 minutes ago [-]
I remember being called out by name in an Archimedes Plutonium rant around 1993. I also had a post referenced in the comp.lang.c FAQ for a few years. That's the closest I've come to celebrity. The internet before the web brings back memories.
I better not dwell to long or I'll have flashbacks t coding X/Motif UI's.
huhkerrf 40 minutes ago [-]
Didn't John Titor also post his warnings on Usenet?
pwdisswordfishs 29 minutes ago [-]
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wang_li 16 minutes ago [-]
The list lacks Derek Smart, so it's not a real list.
_qua 1 hours ago [-]
B1FF sounds like he would have been right at home on weird Twitter
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I'm sorry, this was probably annoying to all involved, but also so hilarious. Not least of which picturing a detective, who joined the force thinking he was going to solve murders and maybe even get a lead on D.B. Cooper sighing as he posted on a message board.
Reading one of the original threads involving Scott is...really something. Boy, the early internet was very weird.
Also, that dude is completely nuts.
There's a lesson here somewhere.
I better not dwell to long or I'll have flashbacks t coding X/Motif UI's.