Grand Moff Robert Buchanan wrote:
> I will now respond to a post accessible as news:efksmn$ejk$1
> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com by "Rhonda Lea Kirk"
> <rhondalea@gmail.com>:
>
>> Grand Moff Robert Buchanan wrote:
>>> I will now respond to a post accessible as news:efkg3g$cac$1
>>> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com by "Rhonda Lea Kirk"
>>> <rhondalea@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> bughunter.dustin@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Rhonda Lea Kirk is presently engaged in misleading the general
>>>>> public about what BugHunter is and is not. Perhaps you'd like to
>>>>> ring her up and voice your opinion on this misleading stunt?
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, you can reach her here:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>> And feel free to fax your distaste for this type of trolling here:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>> Dustin
>>>>> Author of BugHunter
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> You really need to do something about that sig delimeter, Dust****.
>>>>
>>>> As for smearing, Mr. "I-used-to-be-Raid-the-virus-writer," this is
>>>> just like your accusations of rampant trolling: first you trolled
>>>> yourself into believing things that never happened, and now you're
>>>> engaged in a campaign of destroying what little is left of the
>>>> reputation you were trying to build as one of the "good guys."
>>>>
>>>> I can change my phone number, my fax number and even my address.
>>>> And soon enough, I will do all three. But the damage you have done
>>>> to yourself is permanent.
>>>>
>>>> Good job. Well done. Congratulations.
>>>
>>> What I really want to know is: why does he target you more than so
>>> many other people who kick him around.
>>
>> I made an overture of friendship to Dustin in May. It was not until
>> June that I learned about last year's misadventures, right about the
>> same time that Dustin went back to aow-xp looking for more trouble.
>>
>> As soon as I saw my conflict, I explained it to both Dustin and
>> KMonster. KMonster, of course, shrugged and said, "It's only usenet."
>> Dustin...worked himself into...I don't know what to call it...and
>> shortly thereafter, he announced the end of our correspondence to
>> acv, something of which acv had never been aware until his
>> announcement that it was over.
>>
>> In response to one or another post wondering what the **** *that* was
>> all about, I wrote, "He thinks I'm a slut," because he had made it
>> pretty clear to me in our last few emails prior to his announcement
>> that he thought it of me. His basis for that, I believe, stemmed
>> from some fun KMonster and I had in auk over the July 4 weekend.
>>
>> It just escalated from there. I believe I hurt him when I wrote that
>> it was probably just as well, because I felt like I was walking a
>> tightrope. He took it very personally, and his response was assert
>> outright that I am a slut, to wish me dead and to speculate that I
>> intended to either share or post his emails.
>>
>> Because I responded to his rants, things escalated wildly, until he
>> finally felt compelled to post my address, phone and fax numbers.
>>
>> If you really want to read about it, I have the all the links.
>
> No need; I'll take your word for it.

It was interesting to watch. I have seen psychotic breaks in progress,
but I have never actually watched anyone talk himself right out of
reality and into a paranoid delusion.

It was...weird.

>> I must say that I believe Dustin would not have posted my personal
>> information had he not trolled himself into believing the whole thing
>> was a setup from the word "go." But even if it were true, which it is
>> not, there's no excuse for what he did.
>
> Agreed. Have you considered that he may have been developing a little
> crush on you before he found out about whatever (I honestly don't
> know) exists between you and KM, who he seems to regard as one of his
> "enemies" (snicker)?

One of his...um...acquaintances postulated the same, but I'm 48, he's 28
and I don't think he was interested in me in that way.

Then again, not much of what happened makes any sense, so who can say?

>>> Does he have issues with women or something?
>>
>> KMonster has addressed this at length. The answer appears to be yes.
>
> That figures. If anybody in this world isn't getting any, it's him.

I would think not.

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Happiness limits the amount of suffering one is
willing to inflict on others. Phèdre nó Delaunay