On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:34:53 -0700, John Larkin
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:21:14 +0000, Lionel <
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How can nonsense help?
It was one of my fans pretending to be me:
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http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#frogery>
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Frogery (link)
Yet another new and fabulous Internet invention, a "frogery"
(alternatively, "froggery") is a forged Usenet posting (or, by
extension, e-mail or Web site) whose address was crafted to be
visually as indistinguishable as possible from that of its intended
victim — substituting, e.g., "1" for "l" or "0" for "O" — to either
slur the victim by association or troll him into complaining to the
froger's Internet provider or a public forum, and thereby look stupid.
The term originated on the Usenet newsgroup
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet in the late 1990s. The best known frogery
episode was occasioned by an obscene January 13, 1997 soc.culture.thai
post from "Lawrence Godfrey", leading the better-known Dr. Laurence
Godfrey (whose e-mail address was used in the frogery) to file a
defamation action against Demon Internet Ltd. for failing to remove it
from the company's news spool when so requested.
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