Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> I lost track of Gary up until last year when I ran into a mutual
> colleague at a convention and we started telling war stories and
> Gary's name came up. As it turns out, his parents left him a small
> fortune in real estate consisting of several run down tenements in NYC
> as well as Camden N.J. which he rents out to social services recipients
> for whatever the going rate is. He has them managed by property
> agents, does only the minimum repairs on them and sits back and
> watches the money roll in. From what I have been told he has become
> very wealthy because of his real estate business. He was married at
> one time and had 4 children which based on his approximate age are all
> grown up by now.
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This all sounds quite possible to me, and all too real. He fits the profile
of a Usenet troll quite well.
I.e. a fat bored old man with too much time on his hands, and free money
from the work of someone else. A bit like Snit Glasser.
At least flatfish has an excuse, so what's the excuse of
dfs,hadrongo,ezekookl,clogface,fuddinbusch and tim smith for plaguing
COLA ?
--
If we wish to reduce our ignorance, there are people we will
indeed listen to. Trolls are not among those people, as trolls, more or
less by definition, *promote* ignorance.
Kelsey Bjarnason, C.O.L.A. 2008
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