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Usenet personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality
26•mellosouls•3d ago

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bediger4000•3d 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.
_qua•1h ago
B1FF sounds like he would have been right at home on weird Twitter
duodecimal•1h ago
I'm starting to think Archimedes Plutonium was wrong about his Plutonium Atom Totality conjecture.
JackFr•1h 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•1h ago
> 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.

arcfour•33m ago
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.skiing.alpine/c/frIx-J1XpnI

Reading one of the original threads involving Scott is...really something. Boy, the early internet was very weird.

Also, that dude is completely nuts.

huhkerrf•56m ago
Didn't John Titor also post his warnings on Usenet?
chmod775•44m ago
Most of these are negative in some way, except for the "Other personalities" section.

There's a lesson here somewhere.

wang_li•33m ago
The list lacks Derek Smart, so it's not a real list.
dmd•16m ago
I have the dubious distinction of being in the Net.Legends.FAQ. I'm glad I didn't rise to the level of ending up in this Wikipedia article.

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34•meetpateltech•2h ago•14 comments

Usenet personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality
26•mellosouls•3d ago•10 comments

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