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From: jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whither Oxyaena?
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:33:01 -0500
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:04:54 -0500, Kestrel Clayton
<richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com> wrote:

>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=20
>> anyone else.
>
>Yeah, my bellyfeel is that they were separate people. Peter Nyikos was=20
>already pretty spiteful; I don't know that it would have made sense to=20
>create a sock puppet just to be abusive when he was already doing that=20
>on main. Besides, Dr. Nyikos clearly wanted to be seen as formidably=20
>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=20
>post the occasional smugly lowbrow "Says you" and "Neener neener," but=20
>if he had, I doubt he would have been able to resist praising himself=20
>with it, or rushing to his own defense when challenged.


I recall several instances where Nyikos jumped in the middle of
topics, without saying anything about their substance, just to give
Glenn moral support.

--=20
To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge