From: chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney)
Subject: Re: Who was "Dennis Hall"?
Organization: California State University: Sacramento
Distribution: world 
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 00:14:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.154042.9507@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
>
>	I've seen the claim here that "Dennis Hall" was really Steve
>Chaney trying to satirize the pro-choice movement with preposterous
>pro-choice postings.
>
>	What did "Dennis Hall" say, and what's the full story?

A local student calling himself Dennis Hall, obviously had a cs 60
class (C programming, so I now understand - a class I haven't had
yet). He got an account, and began posting to t.a. He did something
regarding posting someone's e-mail, and from what I heard, got torn up
by his own friends. 

Around then, I get this b.s. letter from Scott Roby @ udel.edu,
claiming that I was posting as Dennis Hall. He said the first time he
sent such a letter (which I never got) and posted it to USENET (which
I must've missed), he said it was a joke, but that this is real. 

My extrapolation is that Dennis got fucked badly by his posting e-mail
in public, in the tradition of Susan Garvin and Eric Rescorla, and
that Roby and someone else had him right where they wanted: to use him
as a joke to drag me down. Obviously, he was expendable as a public
relations nightmare to their own side. (Though I wonder why they never
did this to Rescorla or Garvin.) So they decided, "Steve Chaney posts
as Dennis Hall" was a prank not worth letting slide by.

Since then, my system administrators have been nagged by Roby, Drieux
and Dan King, and both Dan King and Roby have been told up-front that
they had better not _EVER_ write here about it again, or they're beef
jerky. Scott Roby, as much as he claimed it did not happen, was brought 
to see his sysadmins, who had quite a bitsa paper work to write up
because of his probing around here, and was told not to nag CSUS
again. 

Dennis, meanwhile, got his posting privileges removed (while mine
remained), and by some act, got it reinstated. At least that's the way
it seemed, as his articles did come up under "junked" in my KILLfile,
a few times. 

Rumor _also_ has it, as people have claimed on USENET, that he posted
elsewhere, though I can't remember where. 

Patrick Humphrey jumped in and said he had documentation to prove
Roby's claims. I, being the poker player, called his bluff, and he
folded, claiming he mistook the word "documentation" for the alleged
phone call that Roby said he got, confirming his claim. Which never
did happen in the first place. 

Now, I don't know what happened to him, but the mere fact that I've
never been in cs 60 is good enough to unravel the "Steve Chaney posts
as Dennis Hall" prank. (Though I will be taking cs 60 real soon
here.) Too bad, though; I wanted to know how, when I saw resurrections
of his stuff, he was able to do totally indented articles. It's a pain
in the ass to do it manually, and in my shell environment, NeXTNET
does not support indentation...  
  



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