[WikiEN-l] Pcw and USENET

Wed Aug 25 20:04:52 UTC 2004

Good observations, but Usenet was just an example and copyleft 
unfamiliarity was just a guess (and in a sense a rhetorical one, to 
make the point that his "faults" in the leading his  caravan into 
quicksand are very human and I have definitely made worse ones -- even 
though I'm less sympathetic as regards any hubris aspect possibly 
involved).

J

On 25 Aug 2004, at 20:43, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:

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>> From: Jens Ropers <ropers at ropersonline.com>
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Dartmouth class project now on VFD
>> The instructor has really gotten his knickers in a twist with this:
>>
>> He's obviously got an IT background (at least to some extent) or he
>> would hardly be an instructor at all (maybe I'm too optimistic ;-).
>> However, as we all like to forget, IT has ''somewhat'' diversified in
>> the last two decades or so and somebody might be an old pro who knows
>> his x86 assembly language by heart but has somehow, say, never touched
>> Usenet.
>
> I recognized his name from his postings in comp.risks. And, yes, it's 
> the
> same guy: I asked him.
>
> Try a Google Groups advanced search on exact phrase pcw at flyzone.com . 
> And
> that's just ONE of his RECENT email addresses. (Then try one on "Peter
> Wayner". My only concern is the possibility that there's more than one 
> Peter
> Wayner, as he seems to be fairly prolific.)
>
> Since emails from him give pcw at flyzone.com as the return address...
>
> ...and since pcw at flyzone.com seems to be the author of "Translucent
> Databases" (see 
> ttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967584418/002
> -3782040-1645636?v=glance&vi=reviews), why, he must also be the author 
> of all
> those books at http://www.wayner.org/books/ ...
>
> ...which means he's the author of "Free for All: How Linux and the Free
> Software Movement Undercut the High-tech Titans."
>
> Which means there's at least a chance that he's read "The Cathedral 
> and the
> Bazaar."
>
> I'm trying to get up the nerve to ask him outright whether _he's_ 
> notable.