1. Re: PEU
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:41:50 GMT, Mike The Spike
<mikethespike2000 at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Monty wrote:
>>ps...
>> Lets not forget about the former Nate... seems he was coding in EU at
>>about age 14.
>>
>>As to Mike the Spike, he seems to be using a hotmail account...
>>
>>originating ip address : 195.130.132.50
>>mikethespike2000 at HOTMAIL.COM
>>
>
>Wha?
>Da hell???
>
>Mike The Spike
A long long time ago on a Listserv very much like this one, there was a
Euphoria mailing list with lots of happy Euphoria coders exchanging ideas
and algorithms.
One day, into this list came a 14 year old from Canada with delusions of
grandeur. Some people spoke to him. Others were more wary. His name was
Nate.
Eventually the newcomer became uppity and people stopped liking him, and
Nate became hate.
Nate didn't like this, and so posted a trojan to the mailing list that some
people executed. They lost some of their files.
Many of those on the mailing list got very angry with Nate, and threatened
action (one of them, who looked a little bit like your storyteller, got too
angry and made some very nasty threats that he stills feels very silly
about).
Eventually, the Euphoric Knight, who also lived in Canada, telephoned
Nate's parent's and told them what Nate had done. They were not happy and
the boy was taken away from his now beloved trolling.
Many months later, a familiar sounding call came unto the mailing list,
this time from Belgium, via a HotMail account. The members of the list
became wary again.
The story has not yet ended, but the moral so far is:
Be OK with people you meet on the mailing list, and they will be OK with
you. Especially if you're in Belgium, using a HotMail account, sounding a
lot like something we've seen before.
Mike, please don't turn into another Nate.
Thanks,
Carl
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