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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: The accusations of Gene Ward Smith and their effect (from fh, #2)
Message-ID: <1424@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 20:18:40 EST
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.1424
Posted: Wed Apr 22 20:18:40 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Apr-87 23:47:28 EST
References: <1128@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Lines: 159
Summary: Gene Ward Smith learns by doing when it comes to the meaning of slander
Xref: mnetor talk.religion.misc:2571 news.misc:308 news.sysadmin:145

[These two articles were sent to me by Foothead, who asked me to post them for
 him, since his account at eddie has apparently been deleted.  --mrh]

In article <1128@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>   Oh dear! There I was, snidely implying that Foothead might not understand
>the net and UNIX(*) that well, and in particular might not understand the
>implications of the phony arndt@prometheus appearing from daemon@ucbvax.
>Wrong, wrong, wrongo--and my sincere apologies. Obviously Foothead knew about
>all this.  He must have. Because Foothead IS the phony Ken Arndt. This would
>explain why he was so annoyed at my original pointing out of this, above
>and beyond the standard Foothead irritabilities.

First, Gene, I was annoyed because you were being your usual obdurate idiotic
self, making speculations and basing them on practically no evidence at all.
I made a mockery of your speculations by suggesting that it just might be you.
(The possibility that you were gloating over having done this seemed quite
likely given your personality.)  Of course, at that time, it was all a joke.
I knew as much as you did and made a speculation of my own, pointing at you.
This, of course, got you so riled up that you put on your Hemlock Holmes hat
and started "investigating" your eyes out about this.  Gee, what could have
prompted such a sudden rabid defense unless I had hit it right on the nose
with that (then) joke?  The second thing, Gene, is that this has moved out of
the area of speculation into the area of slander when you say "Foothead IS the
phony Ken Arndt."  No more maybes or possibilities (not that you would EVER
admit that your ideas in any endeavor were less than perfect truth, right?),
"IS."  The fact that this doesn't correlate to reality apparently isn't
important to you, you'll stick your foothead in your mouth anyway.  

>  First: where are the arndt@prometheus articles really coming from? Would
>you believe, Rich Rosen? No, not exactly. Specifically they come from the
>account rlr@borax.lcs.mit.edu.
>
insert network log records here

>  But what does Rich have to say about it?
>  I sent him a letter asking about the rlr@borax account. According to him,
>this got set up during the Brahms-Rosen "we are all Rich Rosen" wars. He
>now has a password on it, and uses it to forward mail from Massachusetts.
>We might wonder, does Foothead know about it? Well, lo and behold, we find
>the following from the mail log at borax (and eddie concurred):
>
insert more of the same here

>This was the night before the <666@prometheus.UUCP> posting!

... And all through the net, Gene Ward Smith got his pants soaking wet.
Gene, you're all excited here, I wouldn't be surprised if your pants WERE
soaking wet.  Wow, you've "got" me, you've "proven" beyond the shadow of a dord
that I did this thing.  With your genius logic, you have shown this inevitably
to be true.  Let's see how.  Let's visit the mind of Gene Ward Smith (a short
stay, of course) and examine his reasoning, his evidence, his conclusions, and
(most important) his OBSESSIONS!

>  In other words, we get mail traffic from Foothead to rlr@borax, and then
>mail traffic from rlr@borax to ucbvax here in Berkeley. Does Rich Rosen
>know that Foothead is sending mail to rlr@borax? rlr@pyuxe, the original
>genuine Rich Rosen, says not. He wonders how it is that Foothead is sending
>mail to rlr@borax but it isn't reaching him--after all, he "knows" it's
>used to forward mail to him. I will take a chance, and leap to the con-
>clusion that perhaps Foothead knows how to edit .forward files. I also
>notice that Foothead's mail to rlr@borax is 1925 bytes long.  The article
>that <666@prometheus.UUCP> was responding to was <9322@decwrl.DEC.COM>,
>which was 1663 bytes long on our system.  That does leave room for mail
>headers. And what a coincidence, were Foothead the perpetrator, he would
>read and save the original on eddie, and somehow get it over to borax.
>(A suggestion for next time: use something other than e-mail. Magnetic
>tape perhaps? :-)

Wow, well, I surrender.  Boy, you sure caught me with your pants down this
time, Genius.  Now, check this out.  I mail something to rlr@borax.  That's
funny, I have been sending mail there for quite a while now.  Rich's news feed
has been sporadic for some time (one of the reasons he says he hasn't been
posting, but I think he's had better reasons not to be posting :-) )  So, I
(and apparently others as well) have offered to mail him articles of interest
that might amuse him.  And THIS is Gene's "proof?"  I guess everyone who has
sent mail to that account is also under Smith's scrutiny!  Here's more "proof":
the mail in question was one length and the article in question was slightly
shorter by just about enough (according to the precise Vulcan logical mind of
Smith) to account for mail headers.  WOW!  (Truth is, the letter in question
may very well BE that particular article, because I DID send it to rlr@borax
(among a few other gems, including articles in the "arndt" series as well as a
few moments of egotism from Genius Gene).  How Gene will take this and use it
as more "proof" will surely be an amusement for all.)

Let me make it plain:  you are claiming that because I sent mail to rlr@borax,
and because the phony articles are purported (by you?) to have come from there,
I MUST be the one who did it!  And people wonder why I flame about
self-proclaimed "geniuses" on the net?  Here is a perfect example of one whose
idea of logic is "let's see, what would I like to prove, and what could I say
that would convince people that I've proven it?"

>  What about the Paul Koloc connection? According to Koloc, his prometheus
>was broken into and a phony arndt@prometheus account was set up. This happened
>just before April 1, and an April Fools' "joke" seems likely. Paul then had
>to remove the account and send out cancel messages on the bogus articles.
>He says a number of attempted entries were then rebuffed, the log showing
>the following:
>
>BAD LOGIN ATTEMPT arndt	tty02	Tue Mar 31 12:45:56 1987      etc.

And the humorous thing here is that you would BELIEVE Paul Koloc.  For all we
know, Paul Koloc (who hasn't exactly been known for his honesty) fabricated
this "log" from thin air.  I'd sooner believe Richard Nixon than Paul Koloc,
and I think most people who've read his articles would feel the same way.  But
YOU, Gene Ward Smith, believe what the man has to say because it matches your
expectations about reality.  What's really amusing about all this is Gene's
choice of sources of information:  Paul Koloc and Rich Rosen.  Now, Koloc is
a known liar, so his claims should be taken with at least a pound of salt.
But imagine Gene Ward Smith using Rich Rosen as a source of information to
"prove" his fantasies!  His foremost net.adversary of perhaps ALL time!  In
another time and place, Gene would probably be whomping Rich just like in the
"good old days."  But this time, since Rich Rosen has said something that
might help him in realizing his little vengefulness, he believes him!  I guess
some people pick their sources of information and allocate believability points
to them based on what they want to believe.  I guess I'll go ask Rich Rosen
whether or not you and Matty Weener are really the same person, since you trust
his opinion (all of a sudden) so much. 

>  Curioser and curioser! Bogus arndt@prometheus articles, and a bogus
>arndt@prometheus login. And simultaneously, valspeak gets run on
>pmk@prometheus articles. Since Foothead is strongly implicated in the
>first--his insistent attempts to point the finger before anyone even
>suggested he was involved are truly laughable--we wonder. And we do
>recall, another, just amazing coincidence, Foothead indeed has been on
>an anti-Koloc and anti-Arndt rampage from the very beginning of his known
>net.existence.

Well that chunk of logic makes it all rather interesting, Gene.  Why don't I
use the same logic myself to draw different conclusions.  Talk about "insistent
attempts to point the finger before anyone even suggested he was involved!" 
Who came out first with a declaration about what happened, apparently nothing
but a behind-covering move?  And didn't that person gloat about the impact to
the net of all of this with great self-serving pomposity?  And let's not forget
the OTHER "amazing coincidence," that the brahmsboys have been on a rampage of
their own, this one an anti-Foothead one (actually one of a continuing series
of rampages against practically everybody), for the longest time. (And by the
way, Gene, I have never come "face to face" with Ken Arndt, so your further
fatuous nonsense about my being on an "anti-Arndt rampage" is yet more crap.
In reality, a good number of people were readily convinced that it was the
"real" Ken Arndt, yet Gene "knew" RIGHT AWAY that it wasn't.  Where did HE,
in his GENIUS, get this knowledge?)

I don't have the big guns that these guys seem to have, among them access to
mail logs from machines ALL OVER the country, nor the knowledge to use them if
I had such access.  ...  Now THAT'S intriguing:  who DOES have access to all
the tools to enable them to perpetrate such a fraud on all of us?  By their
own admission, using it all in an effort to "prove" their innocence and pin
blame for the whole affair on someone whom they seem to have some vendetta
against?  Who else?

>ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
>ucbvax!brahms!gsmith	Gene Ward Smith /Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720

Yup, who else? The Olympic world champions of synchronized smearing themselves.
--
Foothead
-- 

Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh