--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
David 'DJ' Hedley (spyders@btinternet.com) [050515 23:47]:
From: "David Gerard" fun@thingy.apana.org.au
If you see someone on IRC coming from 217.44.0.0/16 with a nick that's a variation on my name, it's not me, it's Irate. User:The Number comes from the same range (it's btcentralplus.com, so that's giving away approximately nothing) and may or may not be the same person. Although The Number doesn't use trademark Irate typos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:The_Number suggests a very similiar character so I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I'll check for typos. Irate's habit of typing too fast and not bothering to correct himself leads to various trademark typos. If The Number is Irate, The Number can be blocked promptly as Irate trolling.
From a quick check, I would suspect User:The Number to be a different entity
from User:Irate. Bradley/Irate has a very distinctive writing style characterised by typos (as you note above) and poor grammar to the point of incomprehensibility (e.g. "her is the news it is Gerard that does not understand anything excpect manipulation" from a recent email). User:The Number doesn't seem to have the same problems with his/her writing.
Irate's IRC impersonations are out of order, of course -- and yes, "DavidGerard2" does indeed count as impersonation...
-- Matt
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