Just as we all suspected but it's a good thing you didn't confirm it for
us before now, it kept us all feeling like busy little SAM detectives :)
I must dig up some of Bob's old posts and read again his indignant
denials of the whole thing!
Gavin
PS Community service Nev?! What did you do? ;)
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 06:47 pm, Nev Young wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:05:37 +0100, "David Ledbury"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Any idea who Ken Elston is?
>> Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with "Samsboss"?
>
> IIRC Mr R P Brenchley's father.
>
> Bob used the name as a pseudonym in format, he even published some of
> my stuff under that name, and later as an alias on here.
>
> Bob and I fell out a few times over his use of multiple personas which
> I did, and still do, feel is wrong. I tried to treat it as a game but
> with hindsight I see that many here did not think it was a good game.
>
> Now that so much time has passed I don't have any qualms about saying
> what I believe to be the truth, but as I said elsewhere, even I don't
> know the whole story.
>
> When I first started on-line Bob let me use the samsboss account on
> pipeline as the news feed from my own isp was crap, hence many people
> thought I was samsboss.
>
> I believe that he was also Bill Ritman but I never got him to admit
> that to me. Again IIRC Ritman is his uncle or some such aquaintance.
>>
> I never said any of that. You've not seen me, you never heard it from
> me. OK :-)
>
>>
>
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