[Scott Dorsey]

I'd like to take advantage of this thread to report the recent death of
Roger Carasso, "King of the Usenet Trolls" in the surf at Hawaii. Carasso
was one of the more innovative and inventive trolls during the golden age
of Usenet and appeared here with crossposted threads like the "rectal
microphone" and "blowjob on the monorail at Disneyland" discussions.

Many of the techniques employed by Carasso, such as crossposting to misc.test
so anyone replying to his posts would be barraged by email from autoresponders,
no longer work. However, his general method of crossposting to multiple
groups with deliberately offensive material in an attempt to create flame
wars between groups remains popular with trolls today.

The strange thing is that, much as Carasso annoyed the hell out of everyone,
he'll be missed. He at least had a sense of humor about it and a greater
degree of skill than you see folks trolling today using.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."