In article <HSNTb.213507$xy6.1102224@attbi_s02>,
Julia Altshuler <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>I'm not normally this curious about usenet annoyances preferring to find a killfile solution and
>move on, but the name "Matt Giwer" caught my attention. It seems he's been around for at least 10
>years and has, at one time or another, bothered every group including a private mailing list I'm
>on. He (it?) uses an amazing array of bothering techniques including ****, anti-Semetic remarks,
>flooding, automatic doubling. Does anyone know who or what it is? Is he a troubled individual, a
>group, a program?
Giwer seems to be an individual, and was at one time somewhat more balanced. He's always been
troubled to some extent, though.
I remember once he started posting to alt.books.tom-clancy, claiming that he gave Clancy the idea
for _Hunt for Red October_. Little did he know that Clancy himself was at that time posting to that
newsgroup -- he showed up within a few days and spanked Giwer quite thoroughly.
> It would seem that if he's an individual there ought to be some law somewhere that could jail or
> silence him. (That's not a well-thought out comment on law and law enforcement, more of a sigh and
> lament.)
Two words: J*rry H*we.
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