Dudley Henriques wrote:
Don't know exactly how accurate this data might be but there is enough
commonality in it to at least get a handle on what's going on on this
forum. I'm sure a lot of you more savvy Usenet people have already
discovered this but for those who might not;
Apparently we have on the group a troll or two with enormous time on
their hands and quite a creative "hobby".
The first thing noticeable is the advent of a slew of "new" and
"creative" posting monikers that appear suddenly or the name looks
unfamiliar to regulars here. Then you might notice replies between
these unusual pseudonyms taking each other apart. Then come quotes
placed within these postings supposedly from myself and others on the
forum signed supposedly by myself and others that contain language we
don't usually use when posting. Please be suspect of this. If you see
this behavior, view the message source. There is a common denominator
in the sources that point to specific paths. Just as an example, any
ligitimate post from me will be from a Mac computer bearing the IP
address 207.172.126.29. Anything else bearing my name is a forgery.
1. If you see the term news.x-privat.org in the path, it's the troll,
not me or anyone else.
2. If you see the term eternal-september.org, it's the troll, not me
or anyone else.
3. If you see the term octanews.com, be highly suspect.
It appears our troll has set up numerous accounts within these servers
where he/she can operate freely posting both under a legitimate post
here (as most likely you will see under this one as I doubt he/she can
resist the temptation, and back and forth with one of his/her sock
puppets. If you see a post under this one, check both message paths to
ascertain the validity of this post. If I am right, you will find my
Mac and IP address on this post and the data above on the other. This
being said, I have no idea how many news servers this character is
using, but these are the 3 we found so far.
Many thanks. Dudley Henriques
Hello Dud, don't worry about Octanews because that's probably me. The troll
has impersonated my name "Franklin" in r.a.p. but he doesn't use my news
server.
You're right in your observations and there's a lot more. I posted about
him in r.a.p. recently. If you're interested in knowing more then take
another look at what I wrote. Also check out the messages I link to.
Here is a copy of what I posted a couple of days ago in the thread on
Cessna 150/152 owners.
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"Maxwell" uses a lot of other names. In alt.comp.freeware he currently
posts as "Jeffrey Bloss".
I recently explained some of his work and copied that to the music
groups where this sock is also active. However I left out the aviation
and security groups. If you're interested then this is what I wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/msg/6b9f81c7285f1539
He's some disenchanted retired guy who still retains hopes of being a
pilot, pc security expert, member of special operations, and those sorts
of thing. I guess the Net is always going to be stuck with people who
live out their dreams online.
He's an accomplished sock and can maintain several different identities
at the same time. You can see this in the current thread "VST
Independence" in a.c.f.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...hread/thread/1
c15e77679fdb15b/f71e0b7c2d576cee
Some of his socks are placid but he's mostly noisy although I suspect
may be just a way of hiding limitations by bluster. As an example, his
boisterously proclaimed test of a pilot is surprisingly basic.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...4f17a7ff25fdf2
dc
I expect his various socks will soon start posting in order to muddle
any discussion about him. But, hey, who cares. It's only the internet.
It's not real life.