As I said, it's a pattern of abuse.
being able to login from dialup, or under different name, it would have been more obvious. As it stands... This particular incident would not be enough for me to conclude that Stryfe and Orion are one and the same. DSL provider and dial-up provider are the same, I take? Has Norm ever posted from dialup as Orion? How blatantly obvious was the other incident?The other main incident was pretty much the same, as you can see from the link, except that Norm and Norm argued back and forth a number of times before he left. Other incidents involve the exact same posting style, names from comic books or from Norm's past (with the exception of the [link|/forums/render/user?username=jledbetter|jledbetter] account, that I know of), and IPs all from St. Louis. [link|/forums/render/user?username=Scott+Hacker|Scott Hacker] uses the same IP range as [link|/forums/render/user?username=HMinstermann|HMinstermann], and [link|/forums/render/user?username=jledbetter|jledbetter] uses the same dial-up ISP as [link|/forums/render/user?username=Stryfe|Stryfe].
I am playing Devil's advocate here. Let's see if other explanations are possible...Other explanations are possible, although not probable. Occam's Razor suggests that Norm is trolling, not that there is a world-wide cabal of stalkers hell-bent on terrorizing him. Norm has a history of chatting back and forth to himself as well; cf. his Orion Blastar and cable4096 accounts on K5. He also likes to moderate himself up with his various accounts on K5 as well. There were also a couple of similar accounts created in the [link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] system (one of which was named Andy Kaufmann IIRC; Kaufmann is a [link|http://pub75.ezboard.com/fantiiwetheyfrm16.showMessage?topicID=1.topic|favorite] of Norm's.
Here is the [link|http://profiles.yahoo.com/istryfe|Yahoo profile] Norm came up with. Note that "Last Updated" date is August 2000. Did Norm create this thing so far in advance?There were a number of drive-bys at ezIWETHEY by Stryfes. One of whom posted from Thailand (where Norm's wife's family is from, I believe). All of them were from St. Louis. All of them used the same posting style (Norm's) and all of them had comic-book names (from the X-Men) or variations upon Norm's aliases.
Here is a home page of Stryfe, the Chaos Bringer, [link|http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/9664/| an X-Man character] (I seem to recall that Norm is partial to comics, can't provide any data).See above. Cable/Stryfe/Orion are all from comics that he reads.
The only [link|http://www.netherworld.com/~mgabrys/clock/current.html|link] where iStryfe appears on Google (search for it). Could someone explain what they are trying to say? Note the date - a year before Last Updated on Yahoo.I would guess that Norm has been drive-by trolling many groups. His modus operandi doesn't seem to change much.
I do think he has been harassed in the past by some of the Mac groups. There was one very credible visitation by such on ezIWETHEY. However, I was able to contact them via email; the situation was resolved. I think the harassment gave him the idea from which this current fantasy has sprouted.
