620:(a.k.a. The Usenet Oracle) – collective effort at humor in a question-and-answer format, wherein a user sends a question to the Oracle via e-mail or the Internet Oracle website, which is then randomly sent to another user who has asked a previous question. This second user may then answer the question. Meanwhile, the original questioner is also sent a question which he may choose to answer. All exchanges are conducted through a central distribution system which also makes all users anonymous. A completed question-and-answer pair is called an "oracularity". Many exchanges make allusions to
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773:– science-fiction reviewer and retired game-store owner. As a Usenet personality, Nicoll is known for writing a widely quoted epigram on the English language, as well as for his contributions of concepts like the Nicoll-Dyson Laser and the "brain eater" to Usenet groups like "rec.arts.sf.written" and "rec.arts.sf.fandom"; and for his accounts of suffering a high number of accidents (known collectively as "Nicoll Events") recounted in these groups.
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588:, and the bitter enemy of Serdar Argic. Furr was also notable on Usenet for his self-appointed leadership over the "alt" hierarchy during the commercial expansion of the Internet (ca. 1993–1995), during which he attempted to bring some order and rationale to rampant newsgroup creation, but with minimal success. According to
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landings, and cancer cures, often carrying a message that there existed a conspiracy to suppress the information. The essays often concluded with the signature "UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS." McElwaine's
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Terri DiSisto, who was supposedly a female college student. D'Amato was found guilty of e-mail bombings which caused service outages at a number of colleges and universities, was fined $ 5,000 (USD), and spent six months in federal prison after being convicted in 2001. He is a subject of the 2016
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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, which ultimately led to a court order being filed against him. The
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where his messages would be considered off-topic. Since 1995 he has posted transcripts and snippets of conversations that he has recorded. He has claimed in his posts that television personalities are often talking about him in code and are part of the MI5 conspiracy. Corley often cross-posted
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that made thousands of posts to several newsgroups (especially "soc.history", "soc.culture.turkish", and "misc.headlines") in 1994. The deluge of posts suddenly disappeared in April 1994, after Stefan
Chakerian created a specific newsgroup ("alt.cancel.bots") to carry only cancel messages
610:, who was widely known for acerbic, scathingly humorous and knowledgeable postings to Usenet science fiction newsgroups. He guarded his true identity carefully for many years before his death in 2001. His chief surviving non-fictional work is the
683:, and Publius called upon fans to find the solution. Although the remailer service was shut down in 1995 and Publius has not been heard from since, the puzzle and the prize for solving it were acknowledged by Pink Floyd's drummer,
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of computer users with a vast array of topics for discussion. The platform is usually anonymous, although users can get celebrity status, usually by being deemed different from other posters in some way.
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who implanted a communications device in her brain. In 1995 she founded the website ZetaTalk to distribute her ideas. She came to public attention on
Internet newsgroups during the buildup to
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his entire Usenet feed for instances of his name, and then answering personally whenever and wherever he was mentioned, giving the illusion that he was personally reading the entire feed.
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on the web featuring mathematical exposition and criticism, which he started in 1993 for the Usenet community and which now has a worldwide following. Baez is also known on the
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in London. Corley has his own web site on which he provides so-called evidence of the conspiracies against him. Corley has written a book about his "experiences" with MI5.
574:, sometimes a doubled signature, and exaggerated naïveté. The BIFF pseudonym was originally created by Joe Talmadge, also the author of the infamous and much-copied
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for his abuse of Usenet, and has been similarly removed from most ISPs in
England, an assertion which Corley rebutted in August 2012. In 2007, the
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Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling
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incidents on Usenet, with the objective of denying the
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602:(1947–2001) – pseudonym of David G. Potter, a
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