--- 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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Matt R (matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk) [050516 08:17]:
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.
User:The Number has now been blocked (multiply) as the obvious trolling account it is. I did get an email from someone claiming to be its operater emphasising that they could not possibly be Sollog, ignoring that that wasn't why it was blocked. This person also wrote without trademark Irate typos.
- d.
John Bradley clearly has a level of intelligence and can probably read what we're writing right now. I'm sure that Bradley could easily attempt to deceive us by checking every message to omit all typos, in order to try to make The Number not look like its him. With a matching IP (apparantely) and trolling background, I wouldn't be so sure it isn't him.
Its easy to impersonate someone just by using a spell checker, and we all know impersonation is his specialist subject. ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gerard" fun@thingy.apana.org.au To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Irate impersonating me on IRC
Matt R (matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk) [050516 08:17]:
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.
User:The Number has now been blocked (multiply) as the obvious trolling account it is. I did get an email from someone claiming to be its operater emphasising that they could not possibly be Sollog, ignoring that that wasn't why it was blocked. This person also wrote without trademark Irate typos.
- d.
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David 'DJ' Hedley (spyders@btinternet.com) [050516 09:11]:
John Bradley clearly has a level of intelligence and can probably read what we're writing right now. I'm sure that Bradley could easily attempt to deceive us by checking every message to omit all typos, in order to try to make The Number not look like its him. With a matching IP (apparantely) and trolling background, I wouldn't be so sure it isn't him.
Not a matching IP, a similar IP. (Given the obvious troll behaviour, I checked The Number and Sollogfan when the case hit RFAr. They actually appear to be different people, unless one person has two DSL connections on different ISPs.)
Irate could easily fool us *utterly* by sneakily not going on wild bursts of personal attacks, editing reasonably and so forth. He should certainly be smart enough.
- d.