On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 00:00:58 -0000 (UTC), Bruce >
wrote:

>On 3/2/2016 10:37 Je�us wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>I hadn't noticed, but that's good. It gets messy enough here without
>stalking trolls.
>
>>>but you never know, indeed.
>>
>> Indeed, we have had one genuine and potentially dangerous nutcase in
>> this group. Thankfully he's gone now.
>
>I didn't know about that.

Before your time on RFC and probably nobody else here knows about that
part of his history anyway.