Don't you know the Maori people DESPISE you mc carty, they DESPISE you, why are you here forcing yourself on them, you are worse than a fool, you are evil, forcing yourself into a relationship with people who DESPISE you is EVIL!
Subject: Don't you know the Maori people DESPISE you mc carty, they DESPISE you, why are you here forcing yourself on them, you are worse than a fool, you are evil, forcing yourself into a relationship with people who DESPISE you is EVIL!
What Is The Eric Conspiracy?
Around 1987 someone on the newsgroup talk.bizarre
uttered a semi-incoherent rant observing that there
seemed to be an awful lot of hackers named Eric around --
``and have you noticed'' (he said)
``that they all have moustaches and they're all UNIX
system manglers?'' He then opined that these must be
the secret signs of an insidious conspiracy.
Well, there went our deep, dark, ancient secret! No
point in the hooded robes and solemn blood oaths of
silence sworn by guttering torchlight anymore. Usenet
has spoken. Yes, there is an Eric Conspiracy. You,
too, maybe eligible to join, use our nifty logo on
your home page, and participate in our sinister plans
for network and world domination!
2010 brings us confirmation of what we have long
suspected - there are many, many Erics out there in
Unix user-land.
Who Can Be a Member
To become an initiate of the Eric Conspiracy, you
must meet the following criteria:
1. You must be an Eric
You may match on first, last, or middle name(s). We're
not orthography bigots, if you're an Erik or Erich or
Eirik you are also eligible. We're not sexists either,
so Ericas and Erikas are also welcome. We've even managed
not to be speciesist -- one of the qualified members
is a cat.
2. You must have a Moustache
An eligible moustache may be real or virtual. You have
a real moustache if you wear visible hair immediately
above your upper lip. You have a virtual moustache if
(a) you can produce pictures or the attestation of an
initiated member to prove that you once had a real
moustache, or (b) you can fake it.
(Ericas and Erikas are encouraged to fake it.)
3. You must Mangle Unix
You are presumptively considered a Unix mangler if you
are a Unix hacker, developer, or system administrator.
If you are a Unix user, you are eligible if you have ever
(a) run Unix on a home machine, (b) crashed your Unix host,
(c) cracked your Unix host, (d) logged in late at night
because you got tired of getting totally lagged during
the day, thus ensuring that your host
is swamped all the time.
Borderline cases will be decided by the iron whim of
the initiated membership. (Yes, we can be bribed.)
Solemn Laws Of The Eric Conspiracy
When asked if you are really a initiate of a sinister
conspiracy to dominate the net and/or world, silently
leave the room, say ``No comment'', smile without speaking
or otherwise contrive to leave the questioner nervous,
confused, and just a little more paranoid than he/she was
before. At Eric Conspiracy meetings or while on Conspiracy
business, address other
initiates as `Bruce' (just to keep things clear). Always
and everywhere, strive to earn Official Eric Conspiracy
Coolness Points.
How to Earn Coolness Points
Any initiate can award another initiate Coolness Points.
However, the award may be vetoed by any initiate with more
coolness points than the awarder (but it's bad form to do
this often). Here are some ways to earn Coolness
Points:
Practice your sinister maniacal laughter for use on
non-initiates. Recruit new members.
Use "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" as your Organization
line. For extra sinister effect, add the following header
to your outgoing mail and news: "X-Eric-Conspiracy: There
is no conspiracy". Carrying the logo and a link back to
the Conspiracy page on your home page.
Pull off a particularly neat Unix hack.
Recover bits of arcane Eric Conspiracy lore via your pineal
gland from the akashic records -- new Solemn Laws, sinister
plans for world domination, etc.
Think up more ways for initiates to earn Coolness Points.
The Eric Conspiracy Logo
Here is the official Eric Conspiracy logo, recognized by
paranoids the world over as the sign of a truly superior
world-girdling conspiracy:
Watch for it on our soon-to-be released lines of sportswear,
action figures, and cosmetics. There is also a gray and white
wallpaper version you can use as a background, and a half-size
version you can use as an icon for a web link to this page.
Here are some other variants of the logo:
(pictures on webpage)
(If the mustachioed one on your right looks a little weird,
it's because older browsers don't yet do the transparent
background on PNGs right.)
And now, the Eric Conspiracy has its very own
counter-conspiracy -- the World Eric Watchers Organization.
They think they can monitor us, comprehend
our dark designs, and foil them. The poor, doomed fools...
The Initiates List
Eric S. Raymond (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for building this Web page.
1 coolness point for doing a pretty good sinister maniacal laugh.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Pederson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Sorensen.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Peterson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Tilton.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Randall.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Erik Rossen.
1 coolness point for only runing Unix at home.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Tiedemann (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for designing the "e-in-the-triangle" motif of the
pyramidal Eric Conspiracy logo (see his Erics page).
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik Fair (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for coathoring NNTP and general wizardliness.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik Troan (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for co-maintaining one of the best Linux
distributions.
1 coolness point for maintaining the Sunsite archive.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erika Biga (mail)
1 coolness point for faking her mustache with unusual flair.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Osborne (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting Erika Biga.
1 coolness point for appointing himself Official Keeper of the Eric
Conspiracy Regexp and supplying the Perl script to prove it.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Gentzler.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric M. Ostrom (mail)
2 coolness points for writing a real-time Unix on a PDP-11 and
totally freaking out Ken and Dennis.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric L. Pederson (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for maintaining the alt.sysadmin.recovery manpage
archive.
1 coolness point for having thought up the "X-Eric-Conspiracy"
header.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Smith.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric, the English domestic shorthair cat that owns Steve Fuller
(mail),
-1 coolness points for knocking Steve's new hard drive onto the
floor, mangling the UNIX thereon.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Sorensen (mail)
1 coolness point for dreaming up Satanic Sysadmins, Inc., because
Satan is our master. Hail Satan!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Peterson (mail)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for having the cojones to attempt to get a coolness
point by bribery (i.e. telling me he bought my book). (No, this won't
work for anybody else.)
1 coolness point for designing the Official Sinister ECSL Banner
Graphic.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Tilton (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers (even before being informed of the
Conspiracy's existence!).
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Smith (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" in
his mail and news headers.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Benoit (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for the Linux On A Floppy project.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Hochman (mail)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for having a laugh so sinister it gets him a seat
on New York City subways.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Randall (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point having built no fewer than five ISPs from the
ground up.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Hahn (mail)
1
...
What Is The Eric Conspiracy?
Around 1987 someone on the newsgroup talk.bizarre
uttered a semi-incoherent rant observing that there
seemed to be an awful lot of hackers named Eric around --
``and have you noticed'' (he said)
``that they all have moustaches and they're all UNIX
system manglers?'' He then opined that these must be
the secret signs of an insidious conspiracy.
Well, there went our deep, dark, ancient secret! No
point in the hooded robes and solemn blood oaths of
silence sworn by guttering torchlight anymore. Usenet
has spoken. Yes, there is an Eric Conspiracy. You,
too, maybe eligible to join, use our nifty logo on
your home page, and participate in our sinister plans
for network and world domination!
2010 brings us confirmation of what we have long
suspected - there are many, many Erics out there in
Unix user-land.
Who Can Be a Member
To become an initiate of the Eric Conspiracy, you
must meet the following criteria:
1. You must be an Eric
You may match on first, last, or middle name(s). We're
not orthography bigots, if you're an Erik or Erich or
Eirik you are also eligible. We're not sexists either,
so Ericas and Erikas are also welcome. We've even managed
not to be speciesist -- one of the qualified members
is a cat.
2. You must have a Moustache
An eligible moustache may be real or virtual. You have
a real moustache if you wear visible hair immediately
above your upper lip. You have a virtual moustache if
(a) you can produce pictures or the attestation of an
initiated member to prove that you once had a real
moustache, or (b) you can fake it.
(Ericas and Erikas are encouraged to fake it.)
3. You must Mangle Unix
You are presumptively considered a Unix mangler if you
are a Unix hacker, developer, or system administrator.
If you are a Unix user, you are eligible if you have ever
(a) run Unix on a home machine, (b) crashed your Unix host,
(c) cracked your Unix host, (d) logged in late at night
because you got tired of getting totally lagged during
the day, thus ensuring that your host
is swamped all the time.
Borderline cases will be decided by the iron whim of
the initiated membership. (Yes, we can be bribed.)
Solemn Laws Of The Eric Conspiracy
When asked if you are really a initiate of a sinister
conspiracy to dominate the net and/or world, silently
leave the room, say ``No comment'', smile without speaking
or otherwise contrive to leave the questioner nervous,
confused, and just a little more paranoid than he/she was
before. At Eric Conspiracy meetings or while on Conspiracy
business, address other
initiates as `Bruce' (just to keep things clear). Always
and everywhere, strive to earn Official Eric Conspiracy
Coolness Points.
How to Earn Coolness Points
Any initiate can award another initiate Coolness Points.
However, the award may be vetoed by any initiate with more
coolness points than the awarder (but it's bad form to do
this often). Here are some ways to earn Coolness
Points:
Practice your sinister maniacal laughter for use on
non-initiates. Recruit new members.
Use "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" as your Organization
line. For extra sinister effect, add the following header
to your outgoing mail and news: "X-Eric-Conspiracy: There
is no conspiracy". Carrying the logo and a link back to
the Conspiracy page on your home page.
Pull off a particularly neat Unix hack.
Recover bits of arcane Eric Conspiracy lore via your pineal
gland from the akashic records -- new Solemn Laws, sinister
plans for world domination, etc.
Think up more ways for initiates to earn Coolness Points.
The Eric Conspiracy Logo
Here is the official Eric Conspiracy logo, recognized by
paranoids the world over as the sign of a truly superior
world-girdling conspiracy:
Watch for it on our soon-to-be released lines of sportswear,
action figures, and cosmetics. There is also a gray and white
wallpaper version you can use as a background, and a half-size
version you can use as an icon for a web link to this page.
Here are some other variants of the logo:
(pictures on webpage)
(If the mustachioed one on your right looks a little weird,
it's because older browsers don't yet do the transparent
background on PNGs right.)
And now, the Eric Conspiracy has its very own
counter-conspiracy -- the World Eric Watchers Organization.
They think they can monitor us, comprehend
our dark designs, and foil them. The poor, doomed fools...
The Initiates List
Eric S. Raymond (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for building this Web page.
1 coolness point for doing a pretty good sinister maniacal laugh.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Pederson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Sorensen.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Peterson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Tilton.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Randall.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Erik Rossen.
1 coolness point for only runing Unix at home.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Tiedemann (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for designing the "e-in-the-triangle" motif of the
pyramidal Eric Conspiracy logo (see his Erics page).
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik Fair (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for coathoring NNTP and general wizardliness.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik Troan (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for co-maintaining one of the best Linux
distributions.
1 coolness point for maintaining the Sunsite archive.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erika Biga (mail)
1 coolness point for faking her mustache with unusual flair.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Osborne (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting Erika Biga.
1 coolness point for appointing himself Official Keeper of the Eric
Conspiracy Regexp and supplying the Perl script to prove it.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Gentzler.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric M. Ostrom (mail)
2 coolness points for writing a real-time Unix on a PDP-11 and
totally freaking out Ken and Dennis.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric L. Pederson (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for maintaining the alt.sysadmin.recovery manpage
archive.
1 coolness point for having thought up the "X-Eric-Conspiracy"
header.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Smith.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric, the English domestic shorthair cat that owns Steve Fuller
(mail),
-1 coolness points for knocking Steve's new hard drive onto the
floor, mangling the UNIX thereon.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Sorensen (mail)
1 coolness point for dreaming up Satanic Sysadmins, Inc., because
Satan is our master. Hail Satan!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Peterson (mail)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for having the cojones to attempt to get a coolness
point by bribery (i.e. telling me he bought my book). (No, this won't
work for anybody else.)
1 coolness point for designing the Official Sinister ECSL Banner
Graphic.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Tilton (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers (even before being informed of the
Conspiracy's existence!).
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Smith (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" in
his mail and news headers.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Benoit (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for the Linux On A Floppy project.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Hochman (mail)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for having a laugh so sinister it gets him a seat
on New York City subways.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Randall (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point having built no fewer than five ISPs from the
ground up.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Hahn (mail)
1
...
> <Bozo_De_N...@37.com> wrote:
> > Not to mention stupid. Go away mc carty and be quiet. There is
> > something wrong with you and you can't fix it here.
What Is The Eric Conspiracy?
Around 1987 someone on the newsgroup talk.bizarre
uttered a semi-incoherent rant observing that there
seemed to be an awful lot of hackers named Eric around --
``and have you noticed'' (he said)
``that they all have moustaches and they're all UNIX
system manglers?'' He then opined that these must be
the secret signs of an insidious conspiracy.
Well, there went our deep, dark, ancient secret! No
point in the hooded robes and solemn blood oaths of
silence sworn by guttering torchlight anymore. Usenet
has spoken. Yes, there is an Eric Conspiracy. You,
too, maybe eligible to join, use our nifty logo on
your home page, and participate in our sinister plans
for network and world domination!
2010 brings us confirmation of what we have long
suspected - there are many, many Erics out there in
Unix user-land.
Who Can Be a Member
To become an initiate of the Eric Conspiracy, you
must meet the following criteria:
1. You must be an Eric
You may match on first, last, or middle name(s). We're
not orthography bigots, if you're an Erik or Erich or
Eirik you are also eligible. We're not sexists either,
so Ericas and Erikas are also welcome. We've even managed
not to be speciesist -- one of the qualified members
is a cat.
2. You must have a Moustache
An eligible moustache may be real or virtual. You have
a real moustache if you wear visible hair immediately
above your upper lip. You have a virtual moustache if
(a) you can produce pictures or the attestation of an
initiated member to prove that you once had a real
moustache, or (b) you can fake it.
(Ericas and Erikas are encouraged to fake it.)
3. You must Mangle Unix
You are presumptively considered a Unix mangler if you
are a Unix hacker, developer, or system administrator.
If you are a Unix user, you are eligible if you have ever
(a) run Unix on a home machine, (b) crashed your Unix host,
(c) cracked your Unix host, (d) logged in late at night
because you got tired of getting totally lagged during
the day, thus ensuring that your host
is swamped all the time.
Borderline cases will be decided by the iron whim of
the initiated membership. (Yes, we can be bribed.)
Solemn Laws Of The Eric Conspiracy
When asked if you are really a initiate of a sinister
conspiracy to dominate the net and/or world, silently
leave the room, say ``No comment'', smile without speaking
or otherwise contrive to leave the questioner nervous,
confused, and just a little more paranoid than he/she was
before. At Eric Conspiracy meetings or while on Conspiracy
business, address other
initiates as `Bruce' (just to keep things clear). Always
and everywhere, strive to earn Official Eric Conspiracy
Coolness Points.
How to Earn Coolness Points
Any initiate can award another initiate Coolness Points.
However, the award may be vetoed by any initiate with more
coolness points than the awarder (but it's bad form to do
this often). Here are some ways to earn Coolness
Points:
Practice your sinister maniacal laughter for use on
non-initiates. Recruit new members.
Use "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" as your Organization
line. For extra sinister effect, add the following header
to your outgoing mail and news: "X-Eric-Conspiracy: There
is no conspiracy". Carrying the logo and a link back to
the Conspiracy page on your home page.
Pull off a particularly neat Unix hack.
Recover bits of arcane Eric Conspiracy lore via your pineal
gland from the akashic records -- new Solemn Laws, sinister
plans for world domination, etc.
Think up more ways for initiates to earn Coolness Points.
The Eric Conspiracy Logo
Here is the official Eric Conspiracy logo, recognized by
paranoids the world over as the sign of a truly superior
world-girdling conspiracy:
Watch for it on our soon-to-be released lines of sportswear,
action figures, and cosmetics. There is also a gray and white
wallpaper version you can use as a background, and a half-size
version you can use as an icon for a web link to this page.
Here are some other variants of the logo:
(pictures on webpage)
(If the mustachioed one on your right looks a little weird,
it's because older browsers don't yet do the transparent
background on PNGs right.)
And now, the Eric Conspiracy has its very own
counter-conspiracy -- the World Eric Watchers Organization.
They think they can monitor us, comprehend
our dark designs, and foil them. The poor, doomed fools...
The Initiates List
Eric S. Raymond (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for building this Web page.
1 coolness point for doing a pretty good sinister maniacal laugh.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Pederson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Sorensen.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Peterson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Tilton.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Randall.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Erik Rossen.
1 coolness point for only runing Unix at home.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Tiedemann (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for designing the "e-in-the-triangle" motif of the
pyramidal Eric Conspiracy logo (see his Erics page).
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik Fair (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for coathoring NNTP and general wizardliness.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik Troan (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for co-maintaining one of the best Linux
distributions.
1 coolness point for maintaining the Sunsite archive.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Erika Biga (mail)
1 coolness point for faking her mustache with unusual flair.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Osborne (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting Erika Biga.
1 coolness point for appointing himself Official Keeper of the Eric
Conspiracy Regexp and supplying the Perl script to prove it.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Gentzler.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric M. Ostrom (mail)
2 coolness points for writing a real-time Unix on a PDP-11 and
totally freaking out Ken and Dennis.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric L. Pederson (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for maintaining the alt.sysadmin.recovery manpage
archive.
1 coolness point for having thought up the "X-Eric-Conspiracy"
header.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Smith.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric, the English domestic shorthair cat that owns Steve Fuller
(mail),
-1 coolness points for knocking Steve's new hard drive onto the
floor, mangling the UNIX thereon.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Sorensen (mail)
1 coolness point for dreaming up Satanic Sysadmins, Inc., because
Satan is our master. Hail Satan!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Peterson (mail)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for having the cojones to attempt to get a coolness
point by bribery (i.e. telling me he bought my book). (No, this won't
work for anybody else.)
1 coolness point for designing the Official Sinister ECSL Banner
Graphic.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Tilton (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers (even before being informed of the
Conspiracy's existence!).
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Smith (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" in
his mail and news headers.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Benoit (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for the Linux On A Floppy project.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Hochman (mail)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for having a laugh so sinister it gets him a seat
on New York City subways.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Randall (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point having built no fewer than five ISPs from the
ground up.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Hahn (mail)
1
...
Discussion subject changed to "Don't you know the Maori people DESPISE you mc carty, they DESPISE you, why are you here forcing yourself on them, you are worse than a fool, you are evil, forcing yourself into a relationship with people who DESPISE you is EVIL!" by http://www.smbtech.com/ra s/
Subject: Re: Don't you know the Maori people DESPISE you mc carty, they DESPISE you, why are you here forcing yourself on them, you are worse than a fool, you are evil, forcing yourself into a relationship with people who DESPISE you is EVIL!
What Is The Eric Conspiracy?
Around 1987 someone on the newsgroup talk.bizarre
uttered a semi-incoherent rant observing that there
seemed to be an awful lot of hackers named Eric around --
``and have you noticed'' (he said)
``that they all have moustaches and they're all UNIX
system manglers?'' He then opined that these must be
the secret signs of an insidious conspiracy.
Well, there went our deep, dark, ancient secret! No
point in the hooded robes and solemn blood oaths of
silence sworn by guttering torchlight anymore. Usenet
has spoken. Yes, there is an Eric Conspiracy. You,
too, maybe eligible to join, use our nifty logo on
your home page, and participate in our sinister plans
for network and world domination!
2010 brings us confirmation of what we have long
suspected - there are many, many Erics out there in
Unix user-land.
Who Can Be a Member
To become an initiate of the Eric Conspiracy, you
must meet the following criteria:
1. You must be an Eric
You may match on first, last, or middle name(s). We're
not orthography bigots, if you're an Erik or Erich or
Eirik you are also eligible. We're not sexists either,
so Ericas and Erikas are also welcome. We've even managed
not to be speciesist -- one of the qualified members
is a cat.
2. You must have a Moustache
An eligible moustache may be real or virtual. You have
a real moustache if you wear visible hair immediately
above your upper lip. You have a virtual moustache if
(a) you can produce pictures or the attestation of an
initiated member to prove that you once had a real
moustache, or (b) you can fake it.
(Ericas and Erikas are encouraged to fake it.)
3. You must Mangle Unix
You are presumptively considered a Unix mangler if you
are a Unix hacker, developer, or system administrator.
If you are a Unix user, you are eligible if you have ever
(a) run Unix on a home machine, (b) crashed your Unix host,
(c) cracked your Unix host, (d) logged in late at night
because you got tired of getting totally lagged during
the day, thus ensuring that your host
is swamped all the time.
Borderline cases will be decided by the iron whim of
the initiated membership. (Yes, we can be bribed.)
Solemn Laws Of The Eric Conspiracy
When asked if you are really a initiate of a sinister
conspiracy to dominate the net and/or world, silently
leave the room, say ``No comment'', smile without speaking
or otherwise contrive to leave the questioner nervous,
confused, and just a little more paranoid than he/she was
before. At Eric Conspiracy meetings or while on Conspiracy
business, address other
initiates as `Bruce' (just to keep things clear). Always
and everywhere, strive to earn Official Eric Conspiracy
Coolness Points.
How to Earn Coolness Points
Any initiate can award another initiate Coolness Points.
However, the award may be vetoed by any initiate with more
coolness points than the awarder (but it's bad form to do
this often). Here are some ways to earn Coolness
Points:
Practice your sinister maniacal laughter for use on
non-initiates. Recruit new members.
Use "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" as your Organization
line. For extra sinister effect, add the following header
to your outgoing mail and news: "X-Eric-Conspiracy: There
is no conspiracy". Carrying the logo and a link back to
the Conspiracy page on your home page.
Pull off a particularly neat Unix hack.
Recover bits of arcane Eric Conspiracy lore via your pineal
gland from the akashic records -- new Solemn Laws, sinister
plans for world domination, etc.
Think up more ways for initiates to earn Coolness Points.
The Eric Conspiracy Logo
Here is the official Eric Conspiracy logo, recognized by
paranoids the world over as the sign of a truly superior
world-girdling conspiracy:
Watch for it on our soon-to-be released lines of sportswear,
action figures, and cosmetics. There is also a gray and white
wallpaper version you can use as a background, and a half-size
version you can use as an icon for a web link to this page.
Here are some other variants of the logo:
(pictures on webpage)
(If the mustachioed one on your right looks a little weird,
it's because older browsers don't yet do the transparent
background on PNGs right.)
And now, the Eric Conspiracy has its very own
counter-conspiracy -- the World Eric Watchers Organization.
They think they can monitor us, comprehend
our dark designs, and foil them. The poor, doomed fools...
The Initiates List
Eric S. Raymond (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for building this Web page.
1 coolness point for doing a pretty good sinister maniacal laugh.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Pederson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Sorensen.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Peterson.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Tilton.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Randall.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Erik Rossen.
1 coolness point for only runing Unix at home.
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Eric Tiedemann (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for designing the "e-in-the-triangle" motif of the
pyramidal Eric Conspiracy logo (see his Erics page).
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Erik Fair (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for coathoring NNTP and general wizardliness.
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Erik Troan (mail) (WWW)
2 coolness points for co-maintaining one of the best Linux
distributions.
1 coolness point for maintaining the Sunsite archive.
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Erika Biga (mail)
1 coolness point for faking her mustache with unusual flair.
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Eric Osborne (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting Erika Biga.
1 coolness point for appointing himself Official Keeper of the Eric
Conspiracy Regexp and supplying the Perl script to prove it.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Gentzler.
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Eric M. Ostrom (mail)
2 coolness points for writing a real-time Unix on a PDP-11 and
totally freaking out Ken and Dennis.
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Eric L. Pederson (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for maintaining the alt.sysadmin.recovery manpage
archive.
1 coolness point for having thought up the "X-Eric-Conspiracy"
header.
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for recruiting Eric Smith.
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Eric, the English domestic shorthair cat that owns Steve Fuller
(mail),
-1 coolness points for knocking Steve's new hard drive onto the
floor, mangling the UNIX thereon.
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Eric Sorensen (mail)
1 coolness point for dreaming up Satanic Sysadmins, Inc., because
Satan is our master. Hail Satan!
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Eric Peterson (mail)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers.
1 coolness point for having the cojones to attempt to get a coolness
point by bribery (i.e. telling me he bought my book). (No, this won't
work for anybody else.)
1 coolness point for designing the Official Sinister ECSL Banner
Graphic.
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Eric Tilton (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs"
in his mail and news headers (even before being informed of the
Conspiracy's existence!).
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Eric Smith (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for routinely using "Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs" in
his mail and news headers.
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Eric Benoit (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for the Linux On A Floppy project.
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Eric Hochman (mail)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point for having a laugh so sinister it gets him a seat
on New York City subways.
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Eric Randall (mail) (WWW)
1 coolness point for recruiting himself.
1 coolness point having built no fewer than five ISPs from the
ground up.
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Eric Hahn (mail)
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