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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 11:24:59 UTC
Subject: Anathama maranatha, or Jihad of The Right Reverend



NOMINATING: Colin "The Right Reverend" James III,
[e-mail], as Kook Of The Month.
Vote early, vote often!

           Jihad on biz.*, comp.* and soc.*  groups by
           The Right Reverend Colin James III

           VOTE BY EMAIL TO [e-mail]!!!

The Right Reverend CJIII appears to have set the absolute
Usenet record on the number of complaints to sysadmins and/or
employers: in the last three months, he has complained about at
least 60 (!) people by e-mail, fax and phone.

The whole thing started when CJIII posted some rather weird
messages about a sort method ("BSAM") that he had allegedly invented.
Being confronted with the fact that he did not understand the
key aspect of his "invention" (namely, how to estimate
performance), he anathemized and excommunicated his opponents and started
sending complaints to their sysadmins, bosses, the
Inspector General (for posters working on government
contracts), etc.

The mass anathemizing reminiscent of the witch trials in the mid-evil
Europe remained a comp.lang.*-specific phenomenon
for some time, then somehow spilled to news.admin.* and soc.culture.*,
with the numbers of the faithless ones
condemned to fire and brimstone greatly increasing.

For your enlightenment and spiritual purification, a fine
selection of the Right Reverend's generous contributions to
Usenet is offered below.

We hope that these morsels of divinely inspired wisdom make you
see the light and reward the piousness and perseverance of the
RR CJIII with the most appropriate and well-earned title of the
Kook of the Month.

Read on and vote "YES" (mailto:[e-mail]).

Collection of the selected prose by Colin James III follows.

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CJIII's "estimate" of complexity of his BSAM method:
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Subject: Re: [++] [$$] Re: Desperately seeking BSAM

>.                Comparisons                Moves
>.          Sta-  =====================      =========================
>
>Component  ble   Min      Avg      Max      Min      Avg      Max
>========== ==-   ======-  ======-  ======-  ======-  ======-  ======-
>heap_sort  No    n log n  n log n  n log n  n log n  n log n  n log n
>quick_sort No    n log n  n log n  n^2      n log n  n log n  n^2
>radix_sort No    n log n  n log n  n^2      n log n  n log n  n^2
>BSAM       No                                                 n+ n^0.5
^^^^^^                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^
================================================================
          Any computer science student knows that complexity
          (n + n^0.5) makes no sense. After that
          no one was surprised to read this:
          [quoting CJIII]
================================================================
>Not one person who reads this news group from a Fortune 500 company
>has requested a non disclosure agreement.
>
>That means either no one is interested in seeing what BSAM is or that
>no Fortune 500 readers frequent these groups (fairly likely) or both
>(very likely).
================================================================
          Responding to somebody's comment about his obvious
          cluelessness, CJIII discovers that the best way of
          defense is attack:
================================================================
>| That doesn't really give you much room to go around
>| criticizing anyone else's intelligence.
>
>I am not criticizing your or anyone's intelligence;  I suggest you
>stop posting here, at least under your academic cartouche, because, by
>association and extension, it gives the math department at your
>university a very bad name.
>
>I fully intend to give you the last word here, so by all means make
>further posts, to which I refuse subsequent comments.
>
>Anathama maranatha.
================================================================
          ...and when he does attack, he never stops halfway:

================================================================
Subject: Alleged libel by ..............: clarification

>I called your university to get a US mailing address so my patent
>lawyer could write you nice letter about some of your comments which
>he deems libelous.
================================================================
Subject: Re: Matthew B Kennel on abuse of US Government equipment

>Matthew, You are more stupid than I had thought.  Your last post, and
>the one before, have been faxed to the IG at Oak Ridge Natl Labs.
>Keep it up you idiot.
================================================================
Subject: Jerry Petrey on abuse of Lockheed Martin resources

>Each time you post this stuff, it gets faxed to the Office of the
>Inspector General which services your contract organization.
================================================================
Subject: Ken Garlington on contractor logic and public disclosure of
classified material

> | > Either ask one of the troubled souls here who has been busted by the
> | > IG recently or request guidance from the IG at DoD.  They should have
> | > a 1-800 number. The problem with contractors using the internet is a
> | > security issue, firstly, a billing issue, secondly, with the content
> | > as tertiary.
>
> 2.  Why should Garlington suddenly start posting from a presumably
> private account of [e-mail], during duty hours (ie
> presumably telnetting from his work account to his private account),
> when on 17 Nov 1995 Garlington used his work account
> ([e-mail]) to post information, which
> could be construed to be classified, about an F-22 program to a public
> usenet group such as this, unless Garlington is suddenly just a tad
> paranoid.  (That's the same kind of schizophrenic logic others adopt
> by posting from private accounts to try to vindicate clearly evil men
> at ASSET/SAIC, such as Dr Charles Lillie et al.)
================================================================
Subject: David N Smith of IBM blows his cork

> Pity that David Smith ([e-mail]) only uses his "private"
> account at Compu$erve to flame people in usenet groups and act the
> bully, rather than use his IBM account, as he normally does, to post
> legion articles about Smalltalk and to 21-usenet groups (which says
> how much time he has on his hands at IBM to _troll_ usenet groups).

> I am sure IBM has rules for not abusing corporate resources by
> trolling usenet groups;  and I am sure David N Smith needs more work
> assignments from his supervisor to stay just a bit busier.
================================================================
Subject: Richard Kenner on Self-abuse

> However, it is not a good idea to take any suggestions from Richard
> Kenner, a staff member [paid employee] at The Courant Institute of
> Mathematics at New York University (same place as Robert Dewar et al
> and GNAT).

> The reason is because over the past four months, Kenner has posted
> over 330 usenet posts with 93%  to "rec.nude" or "uk.rec.nude", having
> such titles as:

> 11/05  Voyeur's Vacation
> 11/01  Club Orient status

> A better way to correct any misrepresentations would be for Kenner to
> stop using his University Internet account on company time to persue
> his hobby.
================================================================
Subject: Re: Still Looking: Pretty Printer for ada

> This has nothing whatsoever to do with your job at Lockheed Martin or
> with the mission of Lockheed Martin.

> May I suggest posting from your iag.net account;  however, telnetting
> there from work would not be a very good idea either, because that
> also would be abusing corporate resources.
================================================================
Subject: Pascal Martin at Thomson Software Products

> And I wish you would cease and desist, because I get tired of faxing
> your messages to the Vice-President of Human Resources at Thomson.
================================================================
Subject: Posts by Robert Patrick, unbecoming to a graduate student at Carnegie
Mellon University

> Re sending faxes to bosses,  I've taken your suggestion and done so to
> the Dean of the computere science graduate school and to the director
> of the enginering research center.

> It is shameful that you would waste university resources on non
> university activities.
================================================================
Subject: Grady Booch on comp.lang.ada ??

> The above is identical to the illiterate style of one Grady Booch at
> Rational Software Corporation, ie, all lower-case, split infinitives,
> and unclear, illogical writing style.
>
> The account is bogus.
================================================================
Subject: Fred McCall on Lithium and rooking the IRS

> Your track record on usenet groups indicates an obcession with tax
> matters and the IRS.
>
> For example, usage (not from the presumably work account at Texas
> Instruments, [e-mail]) from your _two_ ".net" accounts amounts to
> over 80-posts in two months to the "tx." groups, such as tx.guns and
> tx.politics (21-posts in one day there on 11/3/95).
>
> | [See how stupid such comments sound, Colin?  Now why don't YOU stop
> | making them?]
>
> Would you want your employer to know that you are threatening people
> in usenet posts to tell the IRS on them ?
================================================================
Subject: Lehigh University's net-abuse (was Peter Vorobieff's net-abuse)

> It is quite clear that despite numerous posts of the univeristy's
> internet rules, Lehigh University __condones__ Vorobieff's net-abuse.
>
> Perhaps complaints to the North Central College accreditation
> organization, which accredits _bona_fide_ college and university
> programs, would be more effective than contacting the bureaucrats and
> "educators" in the administration at Lehigh University.
================================================================
Subject: Steven Perryman on lucky buggers

> Please limit your posts to where you normally hang out:
>
> rec.bicycles.racing, soc.culture.korean, comp.lang.clos, and
> rec.martial-arts (where you write about "lucky buggers").
>
> Does Nokia like to have their corporate moniker appearing in trivial,
> personal, and (usually) insulting messages ?
================================================================
Subject: Re: Ted Woodward of UniSQL is still at it, apparently with the blessing
of Patti Soch, CFO, vicar for Dr. Kim

> Now we see how Cognos employees waste corporate internet resources and
> company time.
================================================================
Subject: Mark Breland at MCC, Inc using corporate resources to make an ass of
himself again on usenet groups

> Mark Breland has had problems before at mcc.com where he's been
> counseled by personnel not to use his internet account for sending
> people private email.  Another counseling session and more work duties
> should cure that boy.
================================================================
Subject: Posts by Paul Brown from an unauthrorized internet account at Berkeley

> [e-mail] (Paul Brown) wrote with deletion of
> most of his schizophrenic and obscene post:
>
> |   Usenet is self-policing - right? It tolerates exactly what it's inhabitants
> |   will tolerate, and no more.
>
> Paul Brown is using an unauthorized internet account at Cal-Berkeley
> which probably should have been turned off when he was terminated from
> a temporary job there last month as a programmer/analyst.
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