Pooh the Cat is Steve Crook IRL. He runs the mixmin remailer service:
http://www.banana.mixmin.net
and talks about himself here:
http://www.banana.mixmin.net/aboutme.html
That he's mixmin's administrator is why he posts so much through mixmin.
Like Chris Caputo of Seattle, WA who abuses his own Altopia newsfeed to
do the same thing to usenet (ie. troll), Steve is probably being paid by
some large corporation to drive usenet into the ground. That's why
there's no placating him, that's why he (like Caputo) is always able to
recall ancient posts on a moment's notice. When you have all the post
retention you like, you can do that.
Like Chris Caputo, Steve has removed most of the pictures of himself
from the internet. Yet he can still be seen here:
http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--RNZxWoImPA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABc/JAqMbQXPIgs/s512-c/photo.jpg
and here:
https://twitter.com/__zax
(click on his image's thumbnail)
Steve has a blog here:
http://blog.stmellion.org
Steve used to post to usenet as Hummingbird for years. Since he's a
professional troll, he creates personae with great skill, giving them
unique characteristics but always in the background, there's the same
psychotic overreaction to perceived slights and "Hummingbird" was a
perfect example. When the Hummingbird sock had served its purpose, Steve
killed him off and moved on to his "Ari Silverstein" sock, haunting this
group using that name for a long time.
Steve-Pooh also continually displays his exceptional knowledge of how
usenet and usenet servers work. He also discusses sock puppetry and
posting anonymously to usenet. He often creates sock puppets to answer
in support of his own trolling.
In the same way that Caputo took over updating Newsproxy, a filtering
proxy program for newsreaders, Steve has taken over development of a
Perl language usenet filter named "Cleanfeed":
http://www.mixmin.net/cleanfeed
Proof that Steve Crook is the mixmin administrator is here:
http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=mixmin.net&prog_id=GoDaddy
If you put in the code, you'll see the following:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (
http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name:
MIXMIN.NET
Created on: 26-Nov-05
Expires on: 26-Nov-13
Last Updated on: 29-Jan-13
Registrant:
Steven Crook
Old Post Office
St Mellion, Saltash, PL12 6RJ
United Kingdom
Administrative Contact:
Crook, Steven
st...@mixmin.net
Old Post Office
St Mellion, Saltash, PL12 6RJ
United Kingdom
+44.7900806443
Technical Contact:
Crook, Steven
st...@mixmin.net
Old Post Office
St Mellion, Saltash, PL12 6RJ
United Kingdom
+44.7900806443
Domain servers in listed order:
ASTERIA.DEBIAN.OR.AT
DROOPER.MIXMIN.NET
SNORKY.MIXMIN.NET
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Now you know.
--
John Corliss BS206. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share,
spy, time-limited, trial or web wares, OR warez for me, please: just
freeware -which I define as legally obtainable, local install computer
programs that can be used indefinitely at no cost, monetary or otherwise.
If I don't come up with a witty repartee to a troll, it's probably
because I have them killfiled and also, because I try not to feed new
trolls.