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Damn, I was going to use some of those names! 

 On Sat, 10 May 2003 12:02:19 -0500, "No One" <noone@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>"Juan Jimenez" <b_d-5_n-o_s-p_a-m@b_d_5.com> wrote in message
>news:au1va.553322$Zo.119640@sccrnsc03...
>> Well, I checked with giganews and this idiot Uncle Samuel (Chrissie?) is a
>> troll, most likely from under some rock in a Colorado landfill. Into the
>> twit list "it" goes.
>>
>>
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=264d0e36d8cc97fd
>A hallmark of our troller, Uncle "Psycho" Samuel <stars@bars> has been his
>use of multiple posting
>personalities. Who could forget the thousands of loveable and abusive
>postings under the names of
>"Chris", "Tony Clifton", "Patrick Fitzpatrick", "Anonymous", "Capicorn-1",
>"Tranquility"  and many
>others, with dozens of reply addresses such as
>anonymous@anonymous.anonymous, me@here.now,
>my@net.not.yours, running@dog.net, and man@moon.org.
>
>Not to be unreasonably critical as it temporarily serves my purposes to also
>post under a Nom de
>Plume, our Chrissie "Uncle Samuel" has gone to great lengths to avoid Google
>archive searches of his
>history by constantly changing posting handles, posting services, and email
>addresses, using dozens
>of them.
>
>But where is the dividing line between a legitimate interest in privacy and
>a psychotic abuse of the
>internet?
>
>In early 2002, an individual posting under the name of "Kingfish"
><nospam@attbi.com>  appeared on
>the local posting scene; "Kingfish" jumped in to local discussion as a
>long-time participant might,
>referencing postings and threads on co.general and boulder.general that
>occurred prior to his
>arrival.
>
>"Kingfish" was mostly an agreeable chap, but for some reason, a majority of
>his postings were
>replies or comments in agreement with postings by Chrissie AKA "Uncle
>Samuel"  who in those days was
>"Capicorn-1". It's interesting that the newbie "Kingfish" wasn't so green as
>to eschew the use of
>the anonymizing Randori.com as a posting host from the beginning to this
>very day.
>
>Forward to the present and we note a psychotic need by our "Uncle Samuel" to
>indignantly or
>abusively respond to any post critical of the war or the Bush regime.
>Lately, that urgent need to
>defend the policies of the president and his own opinions has taken on an
>almost hysterical tone.
>"Uncle Samuel" appears to be losing it.
>
>I couldn't avoid notice that over the last week, "Kingfish" and our "Uncle
>Samuel" have been
>on-line, immediately downloading and replying to each 'other's ' postings,
>within minutes.. Timing
>is everything, we all know.
>
>3-11 Kingfish @ 9:54, Uncle Samuel replies in agreement @ 10:17.
>3-11 Kingfish @ 9:42, Uncle Samuel replies at 10:17.
>3-26 Uncle Samuel @ 8:29, Kingfish adds agreement at 9:44.
>3-26 Kingfish posts @ 9:41; Uncle Samuel agrees within minutes at 9:52.
>Ad nauseum.
>
>Not unexpectedly, "Kingfish" and "Uncle Samuel" are the only two personas
>that replied to my post of
>3/26 poking fun at Uncle Sammy on b.g.
>
>A glance at "Kingfish's" recent postings on Google shows that 80% of a
>representative sample are
>replies in agreement to "Uncle Samuel" postings, or vice versa.  No one
>else.
>Wow! The same as the "Kingfish" replies to Capicorn-1's postings at the
>beginning. What an amazing
>coincidence.
>
>It's one thing to be the perpetual anonymous troll, Chrissie, but you
>slipped under pressure. You
>would have to be a psycho to pay for the multiple USENET posting hosts that
>you have only for the
>purpose of publicly validating your own opinion. And yet you have.
>
>You have demonstrated that you don't have a pito, so you do it publicly on
>USENET instead.
>Observe the truth in the cartoon, get a life and see a shrink.
>*************************************************
>in the same thread:
>I've been thinking recently that it's a bot.  Who would really have the
>time to spend so many hours a day on USENET, and enough pent up anger to
>always come off as a dog barking at the end of its chain?  Plus, the
>posts are incredibly predictable***.  I think it's a Perl script some CU
>grad student wrote for his master's paper on modern Turing machines.
>