On 17.12.2019 at 15:55, Richard Helgar scribbled:
> FYI snit is flooding COLA with a nym similar to yours and pretending
> to be the real Marek Novotny. It's mostly related to a free computer
> you gave to snit. I thought you should be aware.
There has been a followup to this situation — or at least, sideways.
Believe it or not, but completely unrelated to the events in C.O.L.A. —
which I don't monitor — I have received an email from Marek yesterday,
out of the blue, after three years of absence. Marek has no idea
what's going on in C.O.L.A., and he doesn't even have a Usenet account
anymore at the moment.
His disappearance, while disconcerting and leading people to the
conclusion as that Marek would have passed away, is however
understandable, once you know the background.
Around the time of Snit's stalking of Marek and Marek's activity in
C.O.L.A., Marek's father died — his mother had just passed away —
shortly followed by the death of his sister as well. That, his very
serious health problems, and the harassment by Snit and the other
C.O.L.A. trolls, caused Marek to flip a bit in his brain and on a
whim, he decided to rid himself of anything to do with Usenet, the
GNU/Linux newsgroups, and even the internet at large. He immediately
sold all of his electronics and he radically changed his life.
He is maintaining this different lifestyle right now, but he has now
passed all of the scripts he was working on over to me. I'll see
whether I can upload them somewhere, or get someone else to do it — I
don't really own any websites, and I don't have a GitHub account, but
some of the people I'm in contact with do.
Now, if the above seems all too convenient, then let me assure you that
I've taken the necessary steps to make sure that the person who was
suddenly emailing me out of the blue from Marek's domain — which he
still owns — was really Marek.
So I have asked him a number of things that only he could have known
about — things from his own life, things that he and I had been working
on together, and things from my personal life. And not only did he
give me all the right answers, but he even went into great detail in
describing everything. So, yes, it IS the real Marek.
Anyway, like I said, he has passed all of his shell scripts onto me —
one of which he had never published so far, and I'm not sure whether he
finished it because I haven't looked at it closely yet — and so if
anyone is interested in his scripts, then I'll see whether I can make
them available.