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Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by SwellJoe on Thursday December 25, 2014 @06:41AM (#8796063)
Interesting. But, still, the threats of violence and general dehumanization of her by several people is pretty horrible (someone has suggested she got someone arrested, but I don't see confirmation of that or an explanation for why...if they threatened violence against her, as several messages in the archive do, I wouldn't begrudge her for reporting those threats to police, for example).
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Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by akira2501 on Thursday December 25, 2014 @07:13AM (#8796097)
Really it's a bunch of people trying to impress and out-do each other. "Dave Starr", "Susan Thunder", and "Roscoe Dupran" tangled with each other through almost any format available to them.

Here's more old-school sources of all this rivalry: http://www.flyingsnail.com/missingbbs/ http://phrack.org/issues/10/2.html

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Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by SwellJoe on Thursday December 25, 2014 @07:22AM (#8796110)
It takes a truly epic troll to span decades...impressive, in a way. Embarrassing, too.
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Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by walterbell on Thursday December 25, 2014 @12:47PM (#8796726)
Could be reusable handle(s) in an extended psychology experiment. One person could use multiple handles, or one handle could be used by multiple people.
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Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by digi_owl on Thursday December 25, 2014 @10:43PM (#8797954)
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5370

A recent-ish example of someone using multiple handles...

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