(Peter Stickney) wrote:

There's only one problem with that, Mike. Autocollimater's posts are
coming through nntp (Net News Transport Protocol) Server
,
and Art's are coming through nntp server mb-m10.aol.com.
AOL, like everybody else, has their News Servers set up to handle a
particular set of POP (Points of Presense), and, therefore, service a
particular geographic area. The area serviced by an nntp server is
large enough that, say, calling a POP in an adjacent locale will, by
and large, have you posting your stuff through the same server. So
what those message IDs are telling us is that Art and Autocollimater
may well be in the same Time Zone, but they aren't near each other.

Perhaps, but I remain convinced that Kramer is posting anonymously
as "Autocollimator" (speaking of whom, where IS this mysterious
"Autocollimator" person anyway?) Besides the reasons I gave
previously such as tone, formatting style, attitude, anti-Bush
rhetoric, etc, it's no mere coincidence that "Autocollimator"
viciously attacked Dan Ford (e.g: "Cub Driver") but only after
Dan announced that he had killfiled Art Kramer. Nor is it coincidental
that "Autocollimator" insulted Ed Rasimus right after Ed tore Kramer
a new one because of Kramer's obnoxious "if you ain't been, you
ain't ****" attitude and used the term "curmudgeon" to describe
Kramer. When Ed said Kramer was guilty of "demeaning the whole
warrior ethic," the "Autocollimator" person subsequently responded:

"I checked that post and the "Major" never came right out and named
art at all. No wonder Art never replied. Did the Warrior Class major
lose his nerve?"



If it walks like a duck....