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Kelly Bert Manning <ua602@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Eric� wrote:
>
> > You haven't shown where I've lied.  You're simply up to your usual 
> > netkookery, Kelly Bert.
>
> Actually, I'm cited as a contributor to the net.legends faq, not as a
> subject.

So am I, and knowing as I do first-hand just how low the entry
requirements were, I wonder why you think that getting a mention in the
list of contributors of that document is in itself any kind of
achievement, or evidence of any depth of knowledge of kook behavior.



> I'd be happy to nominate you as a new subject for an updated
> version if you wish.

Is that a threat? Ha ha, that's funny.

The net.legends faq was compiled at a time when there were far fewer
people on Usenet, and indeed, on the entire Internet. (Much of the
actions documented in the faq preceded the Web.) At that time, it was
actually possible to compile a reasonably complete record of
net.kooks--and was not such a hopelessly big and neverending project
that it wasn't worth actually doing.

Just as the entry requirements for being a mentioned contributor were
low (basically, all it took was compiling a fairly complete record of a
particular person's or group of people's activities, or write up a
straightforward summary of same), so was the kookery level required to
get listed as a subject, back then.

Today, many of the figures immortalized in the faq wouldn't even be
worth considering, wouldn't even rate a second glance--they'd just be
one of many carrying on with the same sort of behavior, a type that is
utterly commonplace nowadays. Since you were around back then, you
probably know all of this as well as I do, if not better.

If you think Eric's posts are worthy of being mentioned in a 2001-era
updated net.legends faq, well, I'm laughing. And your mentioning it in
the manner of a threat makes me wonder if you're ready to cross over to
the other side of the contributor/subject divide yourself. I take
pleasure in my name's appearance in that 'historical' net.document too,
but I know better than to think it indicates anything significant.


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