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The rec.arts.poems and alt.arts.poetry.comments newsgroups
have long been infected by the presence of trolls.
Consistent with the nature of these unpleasant beasts, their constant puerile demand for attention
compels them to "morph" into different identities ("sockpuppets" or "socks") in a pathetic
attempt to circumvent killfiles. The three most infamous of these are:
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Charles S. Lysaght
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Chuck has a number of nicknames earned during his years of servitude to others within the newsgroups: Chuckles (the Clown),
"UpChuck Lysol", etc. In addition, he has posted using, among others, these sockpuppet names:
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Janet Santana |
Jethro's Giant Brain
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______Chuckles is the base by which all intelligence is
measured, in factors (similar to the Richter Scale). In addition to his other "charms" is the well-established
fact of his plagiarism. He has won not one but
two uncoveted Usenet Kook Awards: "Kook of the Month, September 2003" and "Order of the Holey Sockpuppet".
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Tom Bishop
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As pathetic as Chuckles is, Tom Bishop (aka "Tommy Two-Face", "the Tommygummer", "Tommy Tosser", etc.) takes
hopelessness to its logical nadir. By far the most persistent of witless trolls, Tommy changes
sockpuppets (and, though not as voluntarily, ISPs) almost daily in his desperate quest for
attention from serious contributors. His obnoxious and criminal nature gives him the unique
distinction of qualifying simultaneously for both Most Wanted and Least Wanted posters. In one month his myriad
sockpuppet names (list courtesy of PJR) included:
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Malted Bevis |
Master Po |
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Mister Niice |
Rikky Rooster |
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UPOY Loves You |
Usenet Official |
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What Rhyme is it? |
Rhyme for change? |
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jr shernan |
Rhyme Runner |
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Rudyard Dickinson |
Dr. Wilde |
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Ralph Waldo Frost |
Robert Eliot |
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Robert Pope Jr. |
Lord Byron |
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Dr. Dickinson Jr. |
Pablo Dickinson |
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Gerard Hopkins |
Rim Rhymer |
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Malted Bevis |
Pablo Milton |
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Robert Blake |
Thomas Blake III |
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Rikky Rooster |
Lord Thomas |
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Oscar Yeats |
Carl Cummings |
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O HuuRuu |
Master Po |
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Gerard Poe |
Dr. Suess |
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MDP Intro Guy |
Wilhelm Sharpspare |
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Edgar Allan Wilde |
Hard to Nail |
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What did you say? |
Mr Niice |
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for the rest of us to believe, Tommy actually thinks that these sock names, along with
his illiterate babbling, are entertaining. His efforts have earned him at least one
Usenet Kook Award so far: "Golden Killfile, April 2004".
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Yyyiiinnnggg
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As incoherent, illiterate, ignorant and imbecilic as Tom Bishop and Charles S. Lysaght are,
they would have to be considered on a par with Yeats compared to our man, Yyyiiinnnggg. Easily
the most boring of the three trolls listed here, Yyyiiinnngg is also the most prolific, proving
an old rule of Usenet: "Those with the least to say, say the most.
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Ignore these three trolls. Don't open their messages. Don't respond to their remarks
if you see them appended to other messages. They aren't worth your time.
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