On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 23:24:09 -0000 (UTC), Bruce >
wrote:

>On 3/2/2016 09:49 wrote:
>> Maybe not always funny. Back about 1988 I used to post quite
>> innocently with my real name and real e-addy. Next thing was a
>> stalker, the emails were horrible. I was living alone in a large
>> house, isolated, on the coast. It did scare me.
>>
>> Some of the others on the group managed to track him down and find out
>> who he was, I was reassured he didn't have a vehicle and couldn't
>> drive but also later on I gathered he had a visit to put him off
>> Just the same it was a very nasty feeling.
>>
>> I changed ISP and changed name to LB and never altered back.
>>
>> So you never know until it happens.
>
>I think only the Boner troll is really crazy in this newsgroup,

Yes but a harmless, impotent crank in real life. Interestingly, he's
been posting to Usenet recently but not here.

>but you never know, indeed.

Indeed, we have had one genuine and potentially dangerous nutcase in
this group. Thankfully he's gone now.