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Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
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From: erikb@upurbmw.dell.com (Chris Goggans)
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Subject: Re: LOD >IS< BACK
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Message-ID: <1993May27.185110.25411@raid.dell.com>
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Sender: news@raid.dell.com (Net News Admin)
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Nntp-Posting-Host: upurbmw.dell.com
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Organization: Dell Computer UNIX Networking Services
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References: <1993May27.004021.6587@zooid.guild.org> <gradyC7p6KL.DFq@netcom.com>
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 18:51:10 GMT
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OK... I've had about enough of this BS as I can take.
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First, let me introduce myself. My name is Chris Goggans, but some
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people may know me as Erik Bloodaxe. I am one of the original members of
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the Legion of Doom, and I am currently editor of Phrack Magazine.
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LOD IS NOT COMING BACK.
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What you are witnessing is a very egocentric attempt on behalf of a lone\
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Canadian named Cameron Smith who has this fantasy that he will bring LOD
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back from the grave and serve as its leader.
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We contacted Cameron about a day after his first post, getting his number
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by tracking him back through guild & zoooid. He had paid for an account
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at zooid which allowed him mail and rn.
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The first of us to contact Cameron was myself and Scott Chasin. We both
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told Cameron that there was no way we were going to let some heretofore
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unknown individual usurp the name LOD. We of the group decided to retire it
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for a number of reasons, and all involved wish it to stay that way.
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Cameron responded by saying that he felt it was in the best interests of
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the community that he bring it back to life. I told him it seemed he
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was only thinking of his OWN interests, otherwise he would have begun
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a new group without trying to glom onto the LOD name. He stammered a bit,
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and said well, its dead, so I can use any name I want to.
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Scott began to get real mad, as did I. There was no convincing Cameron
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that what he was doing, would not only make a mockery of something we
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had a part in making known as a "force to be reckoned with." And I
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was personally steamed that someone would have the audacity to take something
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that I still hold very close, and attempt to use it for their own
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silly games.
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We contacted the other past members (the vast majority of whom are on
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the net at mindvox.phantom.com) To talk about what to do. None of us
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want this to continue. We all just want LOD to remain dormant and be
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remembered as it was. (However you may view it)
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Everyone individually contacted Cameron and tried to convince him that
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this was a bad thing, and that none of us approved. He continually
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ignored our wishes.
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This further worried us, as should he actually put something
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together in the form of a file, it would be so ludicrous that noone would be
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able to take it seriously, and would have LOD emblazoned all over it.
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Then all kinds of contrary new posts began appearing. Back, not back, back,
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not back. At first I though maybe Cameron had wisened up, but after
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looking at the posting, realized that someone was just out to make him look
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foolish. (To whoever that was, nice try!)
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Again, this time in public, I would ask Cameron Smith (Lord Havoc) please
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cease and desist this charade. If you respect the group even the slightest
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bit, (which you obviously must, or you wouldnt have plagarized it), do not
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continue with this. Every member of group over its 9 year life has been
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contacted about you, and all agree that they wish it to remain dormant.
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You neither posess the skills, nor the experience to be even remotely
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associated with the group in any form or fashion, even if it were
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still active, you could not even hope to affiliate with it.
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If you sincerely want to put out a magazine, please do so, but under your own
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heading, so that should it actually be of merit, it will stand on its own
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without needing the LOD name as a fall back. If you just want to publish
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an article or two, please send the to me at phrack@well.sf.ca.us and I
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will gladly consider them for publication.
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This is the second time I have asked you to do this. I am speaking on behalf
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of thirty some-odd persons who all want you to cut this out immediately.
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It's very easy to feel detached from the online world when you are hiding behind
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a pc in a different country, isn't it? Your actions are affecting you
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more than you can ever imagine. Please stop now.
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->ME
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(My opinions and comments are my own.
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My company does not pay me enough to own my soul)
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