Re: detweiling

At 6:18 AM 3/23/96, Rich Graves wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Anonymous wrote:
>>  <Detweiler stuff.>
> <Rich's response to Detweiler stuff>

Uh, Rich?...

You've probably been detweiled by Detweiler himself.

Someone around here has a concordance program, called MEDUSA, if I remember
right, which can spot Detweiler pretty well by statistical analysis of the
words he uses.

My hunch is that this particular "anonymous" is LD himself. I take my hint
from this line:

> the joke of course may be that detweiler could have
> been dead for a long time, and people here would
> still be blaming him for their problems. perhaps
> we have a new convenient substitute for Satan in
> the cyberspace age. "the detweiling made me do it."
> (hee, hee). "projection" was identified by freud
  ^^^^^^^^^^^

> in another century as a basic device of the ego,
> a pity that few in our modern era are aware-- or
> perhaps it is not such a pity from detweiler's
> perspective. <g>
>
> (p.s. I imagine quite a few people will accuse "me" of
> being detweiler. I assure you my amusement will at least
> exceed or match that which detweiler ever obtained.)


... Which could have been put there on purpose. You Never Know... ;-).

All this and the fact that he now wants to convert his name into a verb.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga



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On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:

> At 6:18 AM 3/23/96, Rich Graves wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Anonymous wrote:
> >>  <Detweiler stuff.>
> > <Rich's response to Detweiler stuff>
> 
> Uh, Rich?...
> 
> You've probably been detweiled by Detweiler himself.

Gee, really? What makes you think so?

> Someone around here has a concordance program, called MEDUSA, if I remember
> right, which can spot Detweiler pretty well by statistical analysis of the
> words he uses.

Someone has a stylistic spoofing program, called markov, that can produce
output triggering a positive on the MEDUSA test. One of the distributors 
of this program is (or was) qut@netcom.com. 

See the recent posts by "L. Detweiler" in alt.2600, news.groups, and
news.admin.net-abuse.misc. 

This "L. Detweiler" seems to have failed to appreciate how frequently I
write in conscious self-parody, especially as rich@c2.org. His analysis
of the "detweiling" attack is largely correct, but he greatly
overestimated my ego. It'll all come out soon enough, probably about the
time the comet drops under the horizon. 

> > (p.s. I imagine quite a few people will accuse "me" of
> > being detweiler. I assure you my amusement will at least
> > exceed or match that which detweiler ever obtained.)
> 
> 
> ... Which could have been put there on purpose. You Never Know... ;-).
> 
> All this and the fact that he now wants to convert his name into a verb.

Why not? I think it's a useful term. John Crapper's name will always be 
remembered; why not Detweiler's? I think he deserves that kind of 
recognition.

-rich