On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:15:16PM -0800, Seth Cohn wrote: > >Was digging around in google groups (aka the old dejanews) since they've >been adding more stuff, and found old of my old sigs (circa 1997): > >"In my books, the name Seth Cohn is right up there with Serdar Argic, > Robert McElwaine, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel." - Michael Dillon >*Subscribe to alt.fan.seth-cohn and never miss anything I say again on >Usenet!* >Gimme a Sethy snack? On the Internet, no one knows you're a crime solving >dog. > >The scary thing about this sig is that even in 1997 it was showing its' age >and by now it's truly an antique. >1) Anyone know who Argic (10), McElwaine(10), Canter and Siegel (5) were? >The number in (#) is geekpoints awarded for knowing each one. >
Surely you're aware of the naming convention for managed UPSen in efn's machine room? Net.kooks and energy creatures! As to your specifics: Argic - Kibozed [0] for the string Turkey and invaded newsgroups expounding on the many virtues of his native land [1]. McElwaine - Eckankar kook, posted RANTS to NEWSGROUPS more or less RELATED to the TITLES thereof. See [2] and .sig. Canter and Sigel - the first major USENET spammers. See [3] >2) Usenet is a pale shadow of itself. alt.fan.seth-cohn isn't even carried >anywhere anymore. We can newgroup it at efn; and i've been meaning to hold a Saturday clinic on UUCP some time soon after efn's office move, in an effort to get a EUGLUG UUCP ring going. > >3) Does everyone know if you are a dog on the Internet now? Does anyone >recall that phrase I was parodying. a. only if you have a webcam and b. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. [0] see http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/kiboze.html [1] see http://www.kkc.net/eyenet/1994/net0728.htm [2] http://kalex.engin.umich.edu/mcelwaine/ [3] see http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Canter_Siegel/ and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062701312/qid=1004862558/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_8_5/104-2690843-1180710 (sorry about the line wrap) -- UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.
