Isn Jai just a well-meaning, enthusiastic vegetarian with a poor understanding of netiquette?
No, and it is extremely important to understand this. Jai is a malicious troll intent on introducing as much noise into various newsgroups as possible, specifically noise about himself. It is pointless to try to reason with him, pointless to instruct him in proper netiquette, and not worth your while to debunk his arguments because he will simply repost them. Jai was voted “Kook of the Month” for May/June 1995: > From: mlegare@wetware.com (M. Legare) > Newsgroups: alt.usenet.kooks > Subject: Kook of the Month May / June 1995 > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 08:26:40 -0800 > > A tough race, and one with a little bit of controversy. > > I received a LOT of votes for Senator Exon, the author of the “On-Line > Communications Decency Act.” Now, as much as I would personally LOVE to > pitch this particular brickbat at ol’ Exy, as we call him, he has NEVER > posted to the Net. Consequently, he really doesn’t qualify for this award. > Sorry to the 53 people who mailed me votes… > > However, we DO ha