Air Clearing

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Come ON! Must we do this? Come on rj, what has been accomplished by your
post?  A hacker?
If it's serious enough to warn us about, is it serious enough for me to stop
posting here? Or what? Come on, lets stop this nonsense.

Terrance
rj wrote:

> While we're about it, what would you say of a lister who invents a new
> identity in order to converse with itself and thereby inflate both
> personas' profiles on-list? I realise millison will often quote and
> respond to his own posts -- I'm not concerned about that, and I haven't
> really got a problem with it. Doug's up-front at least. And s~Z with his
> Mr Wyrmie, English Girls & co: his affectations of schizophrenia are
> quite charming. Other anonymous usernames (we're all anonymous, aren't
> we) are rife, but I think most list participants are having one crack at
> the cherry each. But, these two identities are quite prominent in list
> discussion, and, looking back over the posts of the past couple of
> months, have sometimes "ganged up" to argue a point or put forward a
> case, to present a seeming consensus where none in fact exists. His/its
> painstaking and elaborate duplicity has been more than just a bit of a
> lark -- it's disturbing and unethical, if ethics can be said to exist in
> virtuality, and now that I've realised it I'm pretty annoyed personally
> that such a hoax has been perpetrated -- but I'm not about to reveal who
> it is because I'm not a cop. In fact, I'm actually quite worried for the
> sanity of the particular person concerned, to be quite honest. What also
> concerns me is the possibility that this lister is also a "hacker", with
> way too much time on his/its hands. So, be warned.
>
> This is an open letter to the personas involved (in fact, there may be
> more than two of you, come to think of it). Much of the disruption and
> unpleasantness and faction-fighting on-list in recent times is down to
> *you*.