I searched on a well-reviled name, and found this link:
https://www.dworkin.nl/pipermail/dgd...er/000020.html
If you click on the name, it opens a mail client window with this
email address:
If you then search on THAT email address, you find this:
http://phantasmal.sourceforge.net/DG...angingLPC.html
Which fits something I found years ago...that he was a MUD player and
certainly very techhy.
So from that site, I got a name. Searching on that name shows this:
http://www.alyx.com/zell/resume.html
Whats interesting here is that he was educated in Sweden....the home
of the legend he took his name from. Additionally, he lives in
Madison, WI....we know he paddled flat-bottomed boats, had some
outdoor experiences, etc.
And the final piece (so far): searching through lots of old posts here
http://twitter.com/#!/Zellski shows a bunch of posts with the same
formatting as the old *roll eyes* or *snicker* .....but in this case
its things like *grin* or *laugh*.
Additionally, we know he used to torture people on a usenet group that
debated alternate potential timelines if history had been different,
especially WW2, and his amazon.com profile shows this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2A550CUUBMNKT

May be coincidence, but there are a ton of circumstantial evidences.
Not a perfect fit, but cyberstalking this nutjob is a hobby, at
least.

I do wonder why his posts ended mid-argument on three different
newsgroups in Dec of 99, though.
--riverman