This newsgroup had an ongoing discussion started by a woman named "Judith" who was obsessed with the idea that Jack Lord wore a hairpiece. Some people were wondering if she was a real person!
In a posting made on Feb 3, 1998, I wrote the following:
On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:26:42 GMT, boo...@uniserve.com (B.Merkley) wrote:
>Nope...this dizzy old biddy is apparently real...she trolls in a
>couple of other groups as well...one of them being a nutrition group,
>where she is derided regularly for her inconmpetence and general lack
>of knowledge. I normally just delete anything that has her name on
>it...
Someone in alt.support.diet did a "turgid analysis" on her posting habits.
This is required reading:
>Subject: Judith in a nutshell
>From: Laurie <lau...@seanet.com>
>Date: 1998/01/21
>Message-ID: <34C6689E...@seanet.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
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>Pun intended.
>
>I had some free time and did some investigating, both in Dejanews and in
>some other places. Judith has an agenda and has used it many times. I
>will relate a few:
>
>1. She "celebrated" (her words) M L King Day in an Elvis NG by telling
>them that Elvis had made racist remarks in his day and she wanted a
>discussion about it. To attack the subject of a newsgroup is her first
>step in the door that she uses over and over.
>
>2. She told the Elvis NG that she thought Donald Trump and Elvis looked
>like twins and was probably not surprised, au contrair, she was probably
>happy, when more than one person told her to have her eyes examined.
>
>3. She busted into a Star Trek group with the sole purpose of getting
>people to make fun of the shattering "fact" that the star of that
>program committed the ultimate crime of wearing a hairpiece or plugs or
>whatever and wouldn't back down until they bowed to her. They didn't.
>
>4. She busted into the Hawaii 5-0 NG with the sole purpose of getting
>people to admit that the star of the program wore a hairpiece and that
>must prove that he and any star who did had a deadly ego disease. They
>told her to get lost. They called her a troll, as did other groups.
>
>There are more, but I think you see the trend here. She busts into a
>group, finds its weakness (our competitive nature regarding Atkins vs.
>low fat) and tries to cause us to start yelling at her and, in her
>hopes, at each other.
>
>She claims to have connections to the hair replacement industry, hence
>her easy focus on one's hair, plus her claim to be involved in the film
>industry, hence her fixation on Hollywood. If she saw dissention here
>with Hollywood people (e.g., Oprah's diet), she saw her opening. Her
>presence here is logical, considering her history.
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