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From: Kestrel Clayton <richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whither Oxyaena?
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:04:54 -0500
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On 04-Dec-24 13:03, erik simpson wrote:
> On 12/4/24 9:45 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 15:49:46 -0500, Kestrel Clayton
>> <richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03-Dec-24 13:54, Martin Harran wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:34:31 +0000, Martin Harran
>>>> <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>> Glenn was exceptionally nasty
>>>>> to her about the whole thing.
>>>>
>>>> Bad choice of words ... nothing exceptional about Glenn being nasty :(
>>>
>>> I presume you meant "Exceptionally nasty even by the exceptionally nasty
>>> standards of Glenn."
>>>
>>> (Glenn's posting history shows decades of slowly growing angrier and
>>> more paranoid. I feel a little sorry for the guy, even though I know
>>> it's at least partly self-inflicted.)
>>
>> Towards the end of the 'old' TO, I began to take the notion that Glenn
>> might be a sock puppet for Nyikos. Despite some indicators, I didn't
>> have enough evidence to call it out and I also doubted whether Nyikos
>> actually was capable of being able to maintain such a level of
>> subterfuge for so long.
>>
> I believe Nyikos and Glenn were separate cranks, neither sock puppets of 
> anyone else.

Yeah, my bellyfeel is that they were separate people. Peter Nyikos was 
already pretty spiteful; I don't know that it would have made sense to 
create a sock puppet just to be abusive when he was already doing that 
on main. Besides, Dr. Nyikos clearly wanted to be seen as formidably 
intellectual, which very much ran counter to Glenn's style.

I suppose it's not impossible he rolled a sock puppet just so he could 
post the occasional smugly lowbrow "Says you" and "Neener neener," but 
if he had, I doubt he would have been able to resist praising himself 
with it, or rushing to his own defense when challenged.


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Kestrel Clayton
"Every normal woman must be tempted, at times, to stoke the fire,
host the black mass, and begin eating hearts." — Rose Bailey