Posted by The Arcane(VIP) on November 2, 2000 at 21:20:39:
In Reply to: Relax and take a deep breath there, pal posted by LfA on November 2, 2000 at 20:54:25:
If you hadn't replied at all, no one would have even noticed. Instead, I get to pull a Nepenthe and "call you out." Alright, you are Guerric/Sebeok. You do two things that no other poster on these boards does when you post (some do one of the two, but only you do both). You use hard linebreaks at the end of every line (approx. 40 characters), such that the text is all on one side of the screen rather than wrapping naturally. You even do this in your e-mails. You also use an odd variation on ellipses, using two periods rather than the usual three basically whenever you use them at all. Posts that follow this pattern include: And another anonymous flame that first led me to theorize about this a while back: ---- Beyond the above, you also use similar vocabulary, sentence construction, sentence length, speech patterns, and so forth. The overall content is also unmistakable. You refer to a couple of things in passing that virtually no mortal would know, which I'll point out if pressed. And at the end, all of the statements you make about yourself fit quite well with your admitted character history and so forth. As for your IP, I haven't asked Dio, and I honestly doubt he'd tell me. He refused the one time I've asked him months ago, so I assume he'd do the same now. But if you really want to continue to challenge me on this, feel free to invite Dio to post it. Yes, I'm sure that it will turn out to be neither dca.net nor your work address, but in the wonderful world of the information superhighway, IPs are actually flexible, and people are allowed to have more than one IP. So let's see the IP, and I'll bet you that it's either located within a 50-mile radius of Wilmington, DE, or that I can trace it through InterNIC or the like to a box directly affiliated with you or with CF. One or the other. Honestly, you should have just let it go.