Re: Of all the r.f.c-ers out there...


Miche wrote:

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"Michael \"Dog3\"" <don'task@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I sure hope I don't end up with any stalkers out of this ng!!

I've picked up quite a few of them over the years. Both male *and*
female!!

Stalking you for what? I've been using Usenet since the very late 70s
and not once contracted a stalker. I've used my real name much of the
time when posting without any issues. However, on the flame and hacker
groups I used to frequent, there were a lot of stalking issues with
other
posters on the receiving end of some ugly stuff. On the flame groups
it
was usually the tracking the other poster down, exposing their RL
information and harassing the other poster's employer to show some
pathetic, infantile one upmanship. Mary Anne Kehoe comes to mind. She is
famous throughout Usenet for her imagined slights and Net Nanny type of
stalking. Google her. She is certifiable IMO. The hacker groups were a
whole different issue and a bit more dangerous but I never had any
issues there either.

Gosh, it's a long time since I've heard the name Mary Anne Kehoe! Did
someone finally take her down, or is she still out there honking and
braying in a lonely corner of the net somewhere?


After _10_ years of her trying to netKKKop me I think I've bested Maryanne
"Loafhead" Kehoe, at least to a degree. She rarely posts on Usenet anymore,
specifically on the alt.gossip.celebrities newsgroup on which I also post.
As stupid as she is, I think even she realised that the heaps of ridicule
she was getting were a bit "too much"...

She even has a Usenet group named after her, which I've tried to keep "up to
date", it's: alt.loafhead.maryanne-kehoe ...if you simply Google her name
or the terms "Loafhead" or "Loafie" you'll get ALL sorts of nutty stuff...I
mean she's been going at this for 11 years now, and she has over 30K
archived Usenet posts...in fact I think she deserves a Wiki entry and one of
these days I'll put one together.

I wish Blinky or Sqwertz had met up with her a few years ago to "settle her
hash", as she is the most notorious WebTV troll of ALL. She did more
single - handedly to destroy the already - ghastly cred that WebTV had in
the Usenet community than any other WebTV'er, and that's some sort of new
low.

And yeah, there's proof that she's certifiable. Take a gander at her new
blog, where she claims she is being targetted by mainland Chinese
"disinformation agents", and she is expounding like she's head of the
International Olympic Committee. Basically, she's a WebTV shut - in with
*severe* mental problems, including monster - ish doses of Narcissistic
Personality Disorder and just plain stupidity. She IS a LOAFHEAD, ya know,
in addition to being a crummy COWARDLY excuse of a human being...

Here is her blog, with some "choice" excerpts. Remember, folks, this is NOT
a "joke" - and that she's also 52 years old, lol :

http://gamesvision.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

"I am recruiting delegates for the Georgia Dream Girls USA pageant and
Georgia International Pageants. Email me for details if you know my contact
info [ altsvo@xxxxxxxxx ]. You or someone you know could be the next
titleholders! My directors are sweethearts. (People are surprised when they
meet me that I have a life outside the Olympic world.) It's called balance.

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It didn't take barely a month and the first verbal brick was hurled through
the window in regards to this blog. Just what is it with people? 99% of the
feedback I have received has been positive. I don't mind constructive
criticism, but the comment about my character was just plain mean. Bite me.
(And be grateful that I have not mentioned who you are.)

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Could someone tell me why the price of Lipton tea bags has shot up in the
past year?

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Where is the concience?

I am really baffled at how silent many Olympic writers are about what's been
happening lately. It was touched on before here, but I think it bears
repeating. There are some out there who have editorialised (you know who you
are), but there are others out there that I have to shake my head in
amazement and say "what are you thinking?"

We in the west are the conciense and the voice. That is a tremendous
responsibility. To pretend that problems don't exist is to be part of the
problem and not the solution.

But I am still hopeful some of you can be turned around. For once, take a
chance, and tell it like it is instead of coddling these people and being
enablers.

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If you have been to New York, and walked by UN HQ, you know the building is
in a mess. There was a report on one of those news magazine shows about the
conditions inside. OSHA would have a field day if they could start writing
violations, but many of the people who work there have diplomatic immunity,
and as such are untouchable.

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There are still leftover holiday labels of 2 liter Coke at my local grocery
store.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

E-mail hijinks-and guess where it came from

I had a very strage email come in over the weekend. It was a usenet posting
I made about six years ago, and the response was a bunch of gobbledygook
that didn't make any sense. I pulled the full headers, and traced the NNTP
Posting host: right to mainland China.

[GM: yeah __NNTP_ headers in an _email_...]

Clearly, someone was looking for something. It was a post I had made
regarding a death-penalty case here in the United States. The posting wasn't
anything recent. So clearly someone had the assignment to go looking for
something. And whoever did this had to be pretty desparate to dig up
something I wrote six years ago in a non-Olympic related newsgroup.

I filed a complaint with the hosting company. If you have ever had a spam
problem, trying to get the Chinese and far east spams nuked is next to
impossible, many times due to the language barrier. But this email was
diferent. It wasn't a spam and it was clearly intended for me. It will be
interesting to see how the complaint goes. It's made me more vigilant.

It always pays to be one step ahead. I certainly didn't fall for it and
whoever was behind it would do well to stop wasting my time and focus on
something productive.

Like their own problems over there, of which there are many.

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I called it "the 60 seconds that changed my life forever", and with good
reason. I probably wouldn't be sitting her writing this if it wasn't for
that fateful day in Moscow seven years ago. If I hadn't cared enough to
"stick my neck out." If I said, "that's someone else's problem."
If...if...if...it was a risk I had to take, if only to save ONE person's
life and prevent someone else from getting that middle of the night phone
call.

Certainly before leaving the States, people were upset. Upset enough to send
anonymous emails saying that "(they) have friends who can prevent you
getting on that plane to Moscow." Upset enough to call my non-published
number and leave a threatening message on my answering machine. Upset enough
to have an unmarked white car (with LOTS of antennas) parked in front of my
apartment for hours on end. AND...chasing me and my driver on the Moscow
outer ring road at speeds over 100MPH after the news conference that day was
over (and my driver admonishing me to "keep (my) head down" in case shots
were fired.

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One of the things that I love to do is observe people---and the stupid
mistakes they make. Case in point: Singapore 2005. Online reporter for major
European radio station refers to me as "some woman from Atlanta." If that
person had done their homework, they would have found I have a name. Fast
forward six months later---there is a new reporter on the beat and Mr.
Clueless is stuck in 5-day-a-week-local-radio-purgatory, having probably
seen his last IOC Session for quite sometime, perhaps forever.

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What a year it's been! I'm really humbled at all that's happened, and the
support I've recived in the process. Of course, there will always be the
ubiquitious person or two who thinks they can "spoil the party" (you know
who you are), but overall, it's been a good year professionally.

I started to think about this journey that I am on, which started back in
1996. Being humble will get you everywhere. Being a jerk, well...

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Those of us on the outside of China are going to keep the pressure up. At
least we don't have to wake up every morning wondering if we are going to
get a knock at our door from the local police.

It's something I wish for my brothers and sisters on the mainland: freedom
to express their thoughts and wishes.

It's not that dangerous of an idea

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I was at a meeting tonight at the Wellness Community. My late husband's
oncologist was the featured speaker. I went partly to thank him for the care
he gave Ken and also to support my husband's memory and my beauty
pageant platform of Brain Tumor Awareness..."



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