Chuck,
I do not necessarily disagree with any of your observations, but many
people would consider the following derogatory:
"Skipper was a non-boater"
"The real Skipper was also a fairly decent guy,
despite his foibles, and while nearly everybody was laughing at him almost
all the time he was sort of like the "slow" kid back in school-
you couldn't help feeling sorry for him and would do what you could,
sometimes, to make his life a bit more bearable.

I can not figure out how someone can spoof a static IP from Derby Kansas,
thunder hinted around that he knew, or he knew how to route trace the post,
but I am too much an internet novice to understand.


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Starbuck's Words of Wisdom wrote:
Chuck,
If this is the real Skipper, I think he might have been upset by some of
the derogatory things you had said about him recently.


I don't recall making any recent derogatory remarks about the "real"
Skipper.
Skipper was a non-boater, (owned a boat he almost never used), and
specialized in stirring the crap in a boating NG. Nobody would disagree
with either observation. The real Skipper was also a fairly decent guy,
despite his foibles, and while nearly everybody was laughing at him
almost all the time he was sort of like the "slow" kid back in school-
you couldn't help feeling sorry for him and would do what you could,
sometimes, to make his life a bit more bearable.

This new version of the old handle is something else. Whoever it is,
it's like he's really bitter and disappointed that his life turned out
the way it did. He thinks he needs to strike out at people the real
Skipper hasn't even seen for 5 years or more, and attempt to start a
fight over incidents that the real Skipper reported, at the time, were
amicable encounters.

As I have stated and continue to insist: The real Skipper is a
gentleman with
an oddball facade. This new character seems to be on some sort of
seriously screwed up crusade. It would be most disappointing to
discover that I had been wrong about Dave M. of D. Kansas and that he's
really as big a jerk as his scores of detractors have claimed. I refuse
to go there. Call it unquenchable liberal optimism. :-)