On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Seth Cohn wrote:
> 1) Anyone know who Argic (10), McElwaine(10), Canter and Siegel (5) were?
> The number in (#) is geekpoints awarded for knowing each one.
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!
Argic was infamous for scanning the newsgroups for the string "Turkey", and
responding with polemics about the Turkish slaughter of Armenians.
Canter and Siegel were the "green card lawyers"...not the first to spam the
Internet, but probably the first to become world-infamous for it, and the
first to pioneer complete non-repentance for the deed.
I was never actually exposed to McElwaine, but I am old enough to recall
the name being bandied about. (For that matter, I was lucky enough never
to run afoul of Argic either, but I've heard enough about him to understand
when a comment went by in a newgroup about "as annoying as it is possible to
be without being Serdar Argic".)
> 3) Does everyone know if you are a dog on the Internet now? Does anyone
> recall that phrase I was parodying.
I've even seen the cartoon. (Not, alas, in the original magazine, but
clipped out and taped to someone's office door.)
> Cyber 'culture' is a scary thing... it expires so fast. 'in ye olde days'
> is a matter of years.
You're forgetting that Internet time is measured in dog years.
- Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
