Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
invisible troll to blame it all on.

Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.

Ed

On 14/02/2024 20:36, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and
> putting them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some
> convenient invisible troll to blame it all on.
>

He writes tutorials mainly for young boys he meets in YMCA where he is
working. He likes to meet them in private in his room so that he can
teach them well. If you have young boys or even young girls then you
could introduce them to this Arlen Guy.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:22:30 +0000, Will I Am
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On 14/02/2024 20:36, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and
>> putting them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some
>> convenient invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>
>
>He writes tutorials mainly for young boys he meets in YMCA where he is

Do you know which branch?

>working. He likes to meet them in private in his room so that he can
>teach them well. If you have young boys or even young girls then you
>could introduce them to this Arlen Guy.
>
>

On 2/14/2024 3:36 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting them down.
> But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient invisible troll to blame it all on.
>
> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>
> Ed

So how's it going Ed ?

Check your Windows Update history, and see if '4441 has failed.
That's something to work on, as a hobby maintenance item.

It's a crisp bright morning here, and for once, the temperature is normal.
Climate change took the day off.

Paul

Paul wrote:
> On 2/14/2024 3:36 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting them down.
>> But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>
>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>
>> Ed
>
> So how's it going Ed ?
>
> Check your Windows Update history, and see if '4441 has failed.
> That's something to work on, as a hobby maintenance item.
>
> It's a crisp bright morning here, and for once, the temperature is normal.
> Climate change took the day off.
>
> Paul
>

You follow these threads more closely than I, Paul; so tell me what all
those references to Arlen and his multiple personae are all about.

I don't want to encourage trolls, but if I had seen a ghost parading on
the walls of Elsinore castle, then I would have inquired further.

Me and Hamlet, kiddo; seekers after knowledge and truth rather than
Sicilian vengeance.

Ed

"Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
> invisible troll to blame it all on.

> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.

> Ed

Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
- i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.

--
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....w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
> news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
> > Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
> > them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
> > invisible troll to blame it all on.
>
> > Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>
> > Ed
>
> Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
> - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.

Huh!? We just pinpointed at least two aliases only two days ago. Not
that two is much, because he has tens and tens (anywhere up to 90)
to choose from.

And FTR, most are not stocking posts, but - AFAICT - some are.

Frank Slootweg wrote on 2/15/24 1:48 PM:
> ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
>> news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
>>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>
>>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>
>>> Ed
>>
>> Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
>> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
>> - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.
>
> Huh!? We just pinpointed at least two aliases only two days ago. Not
> that two is much, because he has tens and tens (anywhere up to 90)
> to choose from.
>
> And FTR, most are not stocking posts, but - AFAICT - some are.
>
Hi, Frank.
Thanks for the info.

Must have missed it.
Can you provide the Subject or Title of the thread(s).

Using SeaMonkey now - and wouldn't be the first time threads on showing
up when no filtering exists.

--
....w¡ñ§±¤ñ

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 15 Feb 2024 20:48:57 GMT, Frank Slootweg
<this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
>> news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
>> > Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>> > them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>> > invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>
>> > Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>
>> > Ed
>>
>> Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
>> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
>> - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.
>
> Huh!? We just pinpointed at least two aliases only two days ago. Not
>that two is much, because he has tens and tens (anywhere up to 90)
>to choose from.
>
> And FTR, most are not stocking posts, but - AFAICT - some are.

What are stocking posts? Are they like stocking stuffers?
Or hitching posts?

micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 15 Feb 2024 20:48:57 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>
>> ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
>>>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>>>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>>>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>>
>>>> Ed
>>>
>>> Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
>>> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
>>> - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.
>>
>> Huh!? We just pinpointed at least two aliases only two days ago. Not
>> that two is much, because he has tens and tens (anywhere up to 90)
>> to choose from.
>>
>> And FTR, most are not stocking posts, but - AFAICT - some are.
>
> What are stocking posts? Are they like stocking stuffers?
> Or hitching posts?
I think they're places where you hang your Xmas stocking for Father Xmas
to fill with gifts.
Ed

....w�񧱤�,

> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
> - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.

I see you are posting using eternal september. That server does filter
quite a bit. Including all HTML posts, causing another poster to disappear
(used aioe before it went poof). Spam posters seem to get weeded out quite
quickly too.

As I check newsgroups for new messages (local high-water rmark subtracted
from the servers high-water mark), I often see that there are a number of
new posts, but when I than go to the newsgroup there are less than that
present.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

On 2/16/2024 4:34 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> micky wrote:
>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 15 Feb 2024 20:48:57 GMT, Frank Slootweg
>> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
>>>> news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>>>>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>>>>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>>>
>>>>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>>>
>>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>> Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
>>>> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
>>>>    - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.
>>>
>>>   Huh!? We just pinpointed at least two aliases only two days ago. Not
>>> that two is much, because he has tens and tens (anywhere up to 90)
>>> to choose from.
>>>
>>>   And FTR, most are not stocking posts, but - AFAICT - some are.
>>
>> What are stocking posts?   Are they like stocking stuffers?
>>                             Or hitching posts?
>
> I think they're places where you hang your Xmas stocking for Father Xmas to fill with gifts.
>
> Ed

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.

But they were rather big stockings, by stocking standards.

And you only hung the one stocking, the other one was mysteriously "missing".

Once the stocking was filled, it was way too heavy for its
original resting point, so it went on the sofa. But that part
is not recorded in any rhyme.

And a hitching post, I thought that was the building you
went to, to get a marriage license.

You can tell the horse isn't too pleased with this modern version.

https://www.noblepanels.com/img_prod/hitching_post2.jpg

https://www.animatedknots.com/two-half-hitches-knot

Paul

....w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg wrote on 2/15/24 1:48 PM:
> > ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
> >> news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
> >>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
> >>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
> >>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
> >>
> >>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
> >>
> >>> Ed
> >>
> >> Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
> >> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
> >> - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.
> >
> > Huh!? We just pinpointed at least two aliases only two days ago. Not
> > that two is much, because he has tens and tens (anywhere up to 90)
> > to choose from.
> >
> > And FTR, most are not stocking posts, but - AFAICT - some are.
> >
> Hi, Frank.
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Must have missed it.
> Can you provide the Subject or Title of the thread(s).

The thread is "Can I watch the superbowl free on Android or Windows
this Sunday?", but it's quite long.

The fun starts when 'rdb' pops up in this post of February 13:

Message-ID: <uqgg4h$1d8t$1@paganini.bofh.team>

> Using SeaMonkey now - and wouldn't be the first time threads on showing
> up when no filtering exists.

Does SeaMonkey perhaps filter crossposts by default?

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 15 Feb 2024 20:48:57 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>
> >...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
> >> news:uqj894$2q8pg$1@dont-email.me...
> >> > Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
> >> > them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
> >> > invisible troll to blame it all on.
> >>
> >> > Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
> >>
> >> > Ed
> >>
> >> Did your avatar post this(above) to the correct group?
> >> Not filtering anything on two different newsreaders
> >> - i.e. not seeing stocking posts from 'him' in this group.
> >
> > Huh!? We just pinpointed at least two aliases only two days ago. Not
> >that two is much, because he has tens and tens (anywhere up to 90)
> >to choose from.
> >
> > And FTR, most are not stocking posts, but - AFAICT - some are.
>
> What are stocking posts? Are they like stocking stuffers?
> Or hitching posts?

I just used Winston's wording and interpreted it in the IMO most
logical way. So take out your Secret Decoder Ring and just think of
another/similar word for 'stocking'.

Ed Cryer wrote:

> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>
> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>
> Ed

You can find Arlen in the thread archived here:
<https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=alt.comp.os.windows-10&mid=PHJ0YjI1MSQ2MG0kMUBkb250LWVtYWlsLm1lPg>

He has not used the nym "Arlen" for close to 3 years, because he is a
serial nymshifter/morpher. But people still refer to him as "Arlen".

Frank Slootweg wrote on 2/16/24 7:39 AM:
> ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Must have missed it.
>> Can you provide the Subject or Title of the thread(s).
>
> The thread is "Can I watch the superbowl free on Android or Windows
> this Sunday?", but it's quite long.

Thanks. I ignored that thread shortly after reading the first dozen
replies...so I missed all the later entertainment(?).
>
> The fun starts when 'rdb' pops up in this post of February 13:
>
> Message-ID: <uqgg4h$1d8t$1@paganini.bofh.team>
>
>> Using SeaMonkey now - and wouldn't be the first time threads on showing
>> up when no filtering exists.
>
> Does SeaMonkey perhaps filter crossposts by default?

No, it does not, just my habit of ignoring or marking a thread as read
or in rare cases deleting the thread(and any future posts) when no longer
of interest.

>

--
....w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Peter Piper wrote:
> Ed Cryer wrote:
>
>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>
>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>
>> Ed
>
>
> You can find Arlen in the thread archived here:
> <https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=alt.comp.os.windows-10&mid=PHJ0YjI1MSQ2MG0kMUBkb250LWVtYWlsLm1lPg>
>
> He has not used the nym "Arlen" for close to 3 years, because he is a
> serial nymshifter/morpher. But people still refer to him as "Arlen".
>

How do you recognise his various monikers?

Ed

On 16/02/2024 17:49, Ed Cryer wrote:
>
>
> How do you recognise his various monikers?
>

His style of writing and the cross-posts to useless newsgroups such as
Android or FreeWare. The guy has been filtered no matter what nym he
uses because I don't visit Android or FreeWare newsgroups so anything in
crossposts relating to these two newsgroups is filtered no matter who is
the real poster.

On 16/02/2024 00:47, micky wrote:
> What are stocking posts? Are they like stocking stuffers?
> Or hitching posts?
Probably he meant to say stalking posts. We had a chap called David
Brooks who was fascinated by people responding to him and so he was
going out of his way to find out everything about the responders
including personal emails, residential addresses and phone numbers.

On 2024-02-16 17:24, Peter Piper wrote:
> Ed Cryer wrote:
>
>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>
>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>
>> Ed
>
>
> You can find Arlen in the thread archived here:
> <https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=alt.comp.os.windows-10&mid=PHJ0YjI1MSQ2MG0kMUBkb250LWVtYWlsLm1lPg>
>
> He has not used the nym "Arlen" for close to 3 years, because he is a
> serial nymshifter/morpher. But people still refer to him as "Arlen".

It is the alias he has used most time "recently". At least for a year.

Then he claimed that someone had menaced his life and thus he had to
hide and stop using that alias. Said he told the FBI. Or something of
the sort.

But that is as reliable as he calling me a racist this month.

So the Arlen name is easy to remember, but he used others before.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On 2024-02-16 18:49, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Peter Piper wrote:
>> Ed Cryer wrote:
>>
>>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>>
>> You can find Arlen in the thread archived here:
>> <https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=alt.comp.os.windows-10&mid=PHJ0YjI1MSQ2MG0kMUBkb250LWVtYWlsLm1lPg>
>>
>> He has not used the nym "Arlen" for close to 3 years, because he is a
>> serial nymshifter/morpher. But people still refer to him as "Arlen".
>>
>
> How do you recognise his various monikers?

If some new or unknown name suddenly says I am a racist, that's Arlen in
a new name (because Arlen has accused me of that, the only person that
did, and has not provided a cite). That's how I found "rdb", an alias
that he used first a year before.

Then, a new name in alt.free.newsservers mentioned having to divide a
post in three parts because it would not go through, and I knew he had
that precise trouble in another group, so instantly that alias was blown
(although I said nothing till somebody else sang him out).

He hates being contradicted. When you do that, he starts insulting. He
can be praising you in one post and insulting in the next.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On 2/16/2024 12:49 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Peter Piper wrote:
>> Ed Cryer wrote:
>>
>>> Who's this Arlen guy? He stalks this group, insulting people and putting
>>> them down. But we never see him. He's just a ghost, some convenient
>>> invisible troll to blame it all on.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm an Arlen avatar. Maybe everyone here is an Arlen avatar.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>>
>> You can find Arlen in the thread archived here:
>> <https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=alt.comp.os.windows-10&mid=PHJ0YjI1MSQ2MG0kMUBkb250LWVtYWlsLm1lPg>
>>
>> He has not used the nym "Arlen" for close to 3 years, because he is a
>> serial nymshifter/morpher. But people still refer to him as "Arlen".
>>
>
> How do you recognise his various monikers?
>
> Ed

You must be joking.

Writing style and subject matter, or attitudes, or expressions.

Even an AI has a writing style.

Basically, the longer a posting is, the more opportunities to
leave clues in the post, as to who or what you are.

Paul

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:21:39 +0000, Will I Am <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On 16/02/2024 00:47, micky wrote:
>> What are stocking posts? Are they like stocking stuffers?
>> Or hitching posts?
>Probably he meant to say stalking posts. We had a chap called David
>Brooks who was fascinated by people responding to him and so he was
>going out of his way to find out everything about the responders
>including personal emails, residential addresses and phone numbers.

David Brooks is still up to his old stalking and sliming tricks, but fortunately
not in this group, for the most part. David Brooks is not Arlen, for the record.

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:59:50 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> Then he claimed that someone had menaced his life

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.home.repair/c/5ridvlPuAGU/m/vnTfAUTcDAAJ

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:21:39 +0000, Will I Am
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On 16/02/2024 00:47, micky wrote:
>> What are stocking posts? Are they like stocking stuffers?
>> Or hitching posts?
>Probably he meant to say stalking posts. We had a chap called David

Ah, that makes sense.

>Brooks who was fascinated by people responding to him and so he was
>going out of his way to find out everything about the responders
>including personal emails, residential addresses and phone numbers.

Wow. thanks