Following is typical from many posts on Saturday, Saturday night - but note the final "tone" - certainly seems to relish the trouble he's causing.....this is from the question about "oil companies and power failure" from jon willianson: this thread:

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0016Lv

But why "two of them"? Can't figure that out logically. One seems so smug, so condensending I'd assume its CPR, but can't tell.

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Don't talk like that you silly boy. I'll have to put my fingers in my ears and sing r-e-a-l loud, "LA LA LA LA LA LA." oOOOOO, earwax! Yummie!!!!

-- (doomers@suck.com), July 18, 1999.

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*S*I*G*H* Children these days.

Could it be an infection of the dreaded "Polly Meme"?

What the heck is a meme, anyway? Is it described in a medical journal anywhere? I hope it is not like a mime, I don't really care for mimes......

-- Jon Williamson (pssomerville@sprintmail.com), July 18, 1999.

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Gee that was a real good imitation, so colorful it was almost lifelike. Yet it still lacks that grain of sarcasm I can so artistically weave into my posts. Keep up the good work, you'll be appreciated one day too. Good Artists paint! Great artists steal!

-- (doomers@suck.com (the real one)), July 18, 1999.

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Jon, that funny because in my life the good news outweighs the bad news 3-1, with the one exception of this forum where bad news is paramount. Go figure.

-- (doomers@suck.com (the real one)), July 18, 1999.

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Jon--(You compare yourself to Albert Speer?---hmnmm, odd.)

Good reporting, thanks. I get very tired of these neurotically kneejerk and predictible responses to information that come with every posting of a serious nature. I know these people are terrified and behaving in a counterphobic way, but it's getting to me...

I do pray the electricty stays up...believe me.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), July 18, 1999.

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By the way there is a regular around here that likes to rip off a handle and post ludicrous nonesense in hopes that everyone else thinks that they are the real person, in some effort to discredit I assume. Just goes to show that the Doomers are not as noble as they claim. There is at least one backstabbing little toad who can't think of any better way to bicker.

How do I know it's a regular? Hell I've been around this forum alot longer than soem of you think. I first starting coming here back in November 1998, and I know about all of you, from Old Git to Hardliner to Jimmy Bagga. I've seen the kids come and go on weekends just like most of you have. I've had plenty of time to see which way the wind on this forum is blowing. And it's heading into meme land believe me. As much as I hate CPR he makes a good point. You people are way to high strung to be unbiased on this subject. God forbid you ever land in a jury box in a Y2K litigation lawsuit.

So you see, I'm not the flash in the pan troll you guys are making me out to be. I'm a troll that goes back a ways. Oh yeah, I got the inside scoop on everyone here, old and new.

-- (doomers@suck.com), July 18, 1999.

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Jon,

Allow me to rejoice with you and your 'delightful new bride!' The Good Book commands all of us to do so.

Like you, I have my own reasons NOT to want it (the infrastructure) to 'ALL go away in January',yet it seems that the preponderance of the evidence seems to indicate that it just may.

BTW, I happened across the Web site for the DELTA-T embedded system remediation company out of England (www.embedded-science.com). They permit the downloading of the instruction manual for operating the DELTA-T in PDF format. I did so and am thrilled at its contents. The manual is a complete course in embedded systems, including what will 'break', how to remediate, what to look for in an unknown circuit board, together with COPIOUS color photographs of actual examples of these systems. I believe I now have as good a 'sense' for the size and complexity of that part of Y2k as can anyone short of actually engaging in remediating an actual system (having an old 286 motherboard helps in following the instructions).

Jon, give my regards to your new bride, and I for one deeply APPRECIATE your sharing,within the limits of confidentiality, your insights into progress on Y2K!!

-- K. Stevens (kstevens@It's ALL going away in January.com), July 18, 1999.

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Jon, while your at it, could you figure out what I'm doing here? I was looking for BA.com (Buttheads Anonymous).

Got link?

-- (doomers@suck.com (the real real one)), July 18, 1999. >>

-- Anonymous, July 18, 1999

Answers

Concur. I could live contentedly were the doomer posts to vanish. No redeeming social qualities there at all.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 1999

Blech! :~P

-- Anonymous, July 18, 1999

delete it? No. Innoculate against him/her/it? Be nice, but not practical. So my instictive reaction (right now) is just observation - for now. One. Two days (or perhaps longer) of merely being an extremely obnoxious pest isn't grounds for going back to AOL and complaining to that group about being a "pest".

Equally important is to try to see what "pattern" he is following - what he says, who responses "immediately" after one of his posts, whether and who he attacks - if anyone, and whether such attacks are forum-only, or more insiduous.

But, if he/she/it becomes "intenetly" violent or obscene - then it's easier to establish that later by noting such behaivor now, at a beginning point.

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Take care, Diane, stay cool and enjoy the break.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 1999

...and then again, ...

< -- (doomers@suck.com), July 18, 1999.

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Hey that last post from doomer inspired me! I am back in the fight to prep and inform. Every time someone puts down Y2k preppers, I am going to take that as a personal reason to double my efforts to support all of you who are wise enough to wake up and get ready.

-- Genevieve Fowler (Oxsys@aol.com), July 18, 1999. >>

-- Anonymous, July 18, 1999

I'll check the e-mail a couple times each day, and may lurk.

Feeling uninspired.

Let me know if something needs attention.

Diane

-- Anonymous, July 19, 1999