OT - Re: Dimensional Warp Generator...

[Erik Price]

mike ledoux wrote:

> Apparently, this guy wasn't (just) doing this to collect email
> addresses, he really thought he'd be able to obtain the parts he
> needed for his time machine:
> 
>   http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60141,00.html
> 
> He was a traditional spammer too.

I don't sympathize with the spamming, but from following some of the 
links in the Wired article, it looks like he suffers from paranoia or 
some other form of mental illness.  A recent CRYPT-O-GRAM gave brief 
coverage to this topic from reader letters after publishing a letter 
that may have originated from someone with similar problems:

<http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0308.html#9>
(search for the string "I haven't a clue, really")


Erik