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On Oct 22, 4:21*pm, Wilko wrote:
BurntNjall...


I regularly apply my increasing technology skills to Burntball's old
posts to try to figure out who he was. His posting history stopped
VERY abruptly here and on a pool site...he was mid-argument. His total
and sudden disappearance makes me think that something happened to him
IRL.

Meanwhile, I try searching the traces of his messages, hints and clues
in his posts, etc, but never get anywhere. I *did* once track him to a
MUD site, and tried to log on to his account with his username to find
his personal details, but could not guess his password. The hint was
'what is my hometown', and on rbp once I tried to get some hint from
him about that, but he was tight-lipped. I ended up just telling the
MUD bot to 'send me my password update' about 50 times. He left rbp
less than 24 hours after that...I always secretly hoped that he got
weirded out by the emails, maybe realized that he was being stalked,
and clammed up.

Either way, the effect he had on rbp was very interesting. The only
person who seemed unfazed was ratt. In retrospect, I wonder if we'd
all deal with him differently...in any case, it sure was strange
times....

--riverman

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:03:21 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:


Oh great. I tell you that I have a fear of closed cockpit boats, that
I hope to address this fear by padding out among the islands here in
HK in open water, and you tell me that you imagined that this boat
would SINK??

Just what I need to worry about! g

--riverman
(time to buy some floatation....)

As I recall the thing has internal sp*ns*ns. I think you blow them up
to "add to the rigidity" of the boat or somesuch nonsense. The thing
is supposed to be pretty unsinkable, but don't take that as a
challenge. It also has a really big cockpit, it isn't like a hard
shell kayak at all. It also comes with an unconditional guarantee
that if you ever lose your life in it they will refund the complete
price, no embarrassing questions asked. (You don' need no stinkin'
floatation...)

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riverman wrote:
On Oct 22, 4:21 pm, Wilko wrote:
BurntNjall...


I regularly apply my increasing technology skills to Burntball's old
posts to try to figure out who he was. His posting history stopped
VERY abruptly here and on a pool site...he was mid-argument. His total
and sudden disappearance makes me think that something happened to him
IRL.

Meanwhile, I try searching the traces of his messages, hints and clues
in his posts, etc, but never get anywhere. I *did* once track him to a
MUD site, and tried to log on to his account with his username to find
his personal details, but could not guess his password. The hint was
'what is my hometown', and on rbp once I tried to get some hint from
him about that, but he was tight-lipped. I ended up just telling the
MUD bot to 'send me my password update' about 50 times. He left rbp
less than 24 hours after that...I always secretly hoped that he got
weirded out by the emails, maybe realized that he was being stalked,
and clammed up.

Either way, the effect he had on rbp was very interesting. The only
person who seemed unfazed was ratt. In retrospect, I wonder if we'd
all deal with him differently...in any case, it sure was strange
times....

--riverman

Since we're talking about how some RBP'ers dealt with the trolls, I know
from a well informed source that Timmy the sponsonman didn't like being
called every couple of minutes, day after day, especially during the night.

Amazing how effective a phone line without number recognition, a simple
modem and dial up software can be in this era of fast internet
connections. :-)

--
Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.---
http://kayaker.nl/

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"riverman" wrote in message
...
On Oct 22, 4:21 pm, Wilko wrote:
BurntNjall...


I regularly apply my increasing technology skills to Burntball's old
posts to try to figure out who he was. His posting history stopped
VERY abruptly here and on a pool site...he was mid-argument. His total
and sudden disappearance makes me think that something happened to him
IRL.

Meanwhile, I try searching the traces of his messages, hints and clues
in his posts, etc, but never get anywhere. I *did* once track him to a
MUD site, and tried to log on to his account with his username to find
his personal details, but could not guess his password. The hint was
'what is my hometown', and on rbp once I tried to get some hint from
him about that, but he was tight-lipped. I ended up just telling the
MUD bot to 'send me my password update' about 50 times. He left rbp
less than 24 hours after that...I always secretly hoped that he got
weirded out by the emails, maybe realized that he was being stalked,
and clammed up.

Either way, the effect he had on rbp was very interesting. The only
person who seemed unfazed was ratt. In retrospect, I wonder if we'd
all deal with him differently...in any case, it sure was strange

I had remarkable luck with just putting him on ignore...so much so in fact
that I'd forgotten about him until you mentioned him.

If I wanted amusement, there were always other people's responses to him.

Cricket

times....

--riverman

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"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:03:21 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:


Oh great. I tell you that I have a fear of closed cockpit boats, that
I hope to address this fear by padding out among the islands here in
HK in open water, and you tell me that you imagined that this boat
would SINK??

Just what I need to worry about! g

--riverman
(time to buy some floatation....)

As I recall the thing has internal sp*ns*ns. I think you blow them up
to "add to the rigidity" of the boat or somesuch nonsense. The thing
is supposed to be pretty unsinkable, but don't take that as a
challenge. It also has a really big cockpit, it isn't like a hard
shell kayak at all. It also comes with an unconditional guarantee
that if you ever lose your life in it they will refund the complete
price, no embarrassing questions asked. (You don' need no stinkin'
floatation...)

Marketing at it's finest... ;D

Cricket