Post #187,934
12/23/04 10:46:35 AM
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Ok, folks...
We're never going to get any new people around here if the first thing that comes up is the whole "Norm" issue.
Miranda, we had a particularly psychotic individual who used to hang around here named Norm. He would post under multiple accounts to make himself look attacked, threatened to commit suicide on a regular basis, anything to draw attention to himself. He did this so much that many of the regulars here now automatically don't trust ANY new account from ANYBODY, without proof that the person is who they say they are.
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Post #187,935
12/23/04 10:49:54 AM
12/23/04 10:56:17 AM
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Ditto that
And Miranda, I was there once too.... in your position.
Brenda
Edit: P.S. On that note, it's time for a new sig. :)
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." \tHitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
Edited by Nightowl
Dec. 23, 2004, 10:56:17 AM EST
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Post #187,937
12/23/04 10:53:58 AM
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To that end...
All we'd like to know is if you are really someone NEW. Not a re-hash of old personae.
Some of us would like and e-mail to a trusted known individual (Like me, they know I exist and after all, we are using my hosting :)
Once that trusted person(s) confirm real existance not merely and alias, this type of harshness will go away.
If you like, some of use have clickable e-mail addresses in their signature block... (hint hint, mine does)
Sorry, but the jerk in the knee-jerk is still quite fresh in many other's minds. For that I am truly sorry that you have to bear the bad fruits of another's brutal attempts to draw attention to themselves.
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Post #187,941
12/23/04 11:06:46 AM
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Paranoid much?
I am not going to go through my time here suspicious of any new poster till proven worthy. That sucks. I will accept them at face value and let their actions speak for themselves. I don't need anyone to vouch for them. I don't even care if it *is* another persona of Norm's. Play nice and so will I. Act the jerk and get blown off.
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Post #187,942
12/23/04 11:12:48 AM
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Just enough, actually
I am not going to go through my time here suspicious of any new poster till proven worthy. That sucks. I will accept them at face value and let their actions speak for themselves. I don't need anyone to vouch for them. I don't even care if it *is* another persona of Norm's. Play nice and so will I. Act the jerk and get blown off. Well everyone has to do what works for them. However, some of us have been burned and messed with a lot worse and more dramatically than others, so each person has to choose how to handle said "situation." Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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Post #187,999
12/23/04 5:50:50 PM
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yup, it dont cost any money so who cares?
that way too many Iraqis conceived of free society as little more than a mosh pit with grenades. ANDISHEH NOURAEE
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Post #187,944
12/23/04 11:23:00 AM
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Does it matter?
If she(?) wants to post, she will. I think the right kind of person will regard proving her identity as a worthy challenge. In that light, proving it by e-mail to Greg is cheating.
(Personally, I am sure it is not Norm - I was only teasing. The style is very diffirent from Norm's lugubrious pompousness. I don't think Norm used "LOL" once here :) )
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Post #187,946
12/23/04 11:26:16 AM
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Maybe not here,
But in other places, as other persona's, most notably female, he threw that in a few times to be more "convincing."
I'm not sure of anything where he's concerned, to be truthful.
Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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Post #187,951
12/23/04 12:19:08 PM
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I was getting ready to post this...
The level of paranoia here is ridiculous. Norm is not everybody, and everybody is not Norm.
Please stop with the asinine accusations and implications. Norm is fairly easy to spot for me; let me take care of it, OK folks?
This reminds me of the whole SHILL!! mania too.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #187,952
12/23/04 12:19:56 PM
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I am the only shill in this village.
Peter
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Post #187,955
12/23/04 12:44:15 PM
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Woo and Yay! \\me says in gratitude. :-)
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Post #187,956
12/23/04 12:51:59 PM
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Yeah but no but yeah but no shadDAP.
Peter
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Post #187,963
12/23/04 1:41:56 PM
12/23/04 1:46:13 PM
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(Even less to see...)
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Post #187,964
12/23/04 1:44:35 PM
12/23/04 1:45:36 PM
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(Nothing to see...)
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Post #187,965
12/23/04 1:48:13 PM
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Please stand by...
...while Another Scott lets his fingers go walkabout in the vicinity of his keyboard, while an open internet link lurks in the background...!
;-)
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Post #187,969
12/23/04 2:31:33 PM
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Things have been squirrelly today, network wise.
Quite frequently today I've been having trouble with "Waiting for z.iwethey.org.." messages in Mozilla that time out. Similarly with other sites. :-(
I wrote the reply on one PC, submitted it, Scroll-Lock Scroll-Lock to the other PC and saw it was there in the forum. I did some stuff, went back to the first PC and went to a different page and hit refresh on z. I wasn't on the Edit page. I got a popup saying "... Post message ... Are you sure?" It seemed a little strange, but I said OK. Then it timed out. So I did it again, same popup. And low and behold I had 2 more of the same replies posted.
I'll learn...
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #187,967
12/23/04 2:04:10 PM
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Ya know
if this wouldn't hit so many nerves, this could almost qualify for an LRPD: Norm is not everybody, and everybody is not Norm. lincoln
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Post #187,980
12/23/04 4:01:19 PM
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I'd live if it were.
No problem here.
Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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Post #187,993
12/23/04 5:30:11 PM
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I never claimed Norm
I merely said BS on the Google random occurrence. I was thinking "Barbara", or whoever she is, but again, not sure of anything. At least Barbara started off asking questions in an academic fashion.
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