Pre-FAQ Appetizer

The Meat & Potatoes

Scott Emerges from the Primordial Ooze

The first known post by XR is in February of 1996. Scott ("LVScott" as he would later be known), probably using a free trial CD from AT&T, starts harassing AFAB and their IRC channel. Check it out here.

Important!!! Note that a poster going by the name "Lvscott" started posting to usenet in late 1999, and is still posting. This is *NOT* the same Lvscott! Look at any of his posts, and note the extreme lack of asshole-ishness. Please do not confuse him with XR the kook.

In April 1996, he starts using netcom. Something netcom would later regret. He is a cancer on netcom until about August of 1998, when netcom terminates his account.

The Billazoic Era

In October of 1998, XR apparently gets a new ISP. All of his posts for quite some time appear to have come from accessnv.com, a Las Vegas-based ISP which was apparently borged into viawest.net in 1998. Currently, there is not even a homepage for accessnv.com - it redirects straight to the viawest.net main page.

As "Bill", XR originally posted using the reply-to address of "lans@met.com". Note that is spelled L-A-N-S. In October 1998, XR is already fighting people in ACS and just making a general ass out of himself. He still also occasionally wandered into the alt.fan.art-bell group and annoyed people there. See his first known post HERE.

About 5 weeks later, XR inexplicably changes his reply-to to "Ians@met.com". Nobody knows quite why. Maybe as spam prevention? Met.com before early 1999 belonged to Metro Online, AKA nycmetro.com, a New York/New Jersey based ISP. Whether XR ever had any connection to met.com or met.net is unclear.

For about a year and a half, "Bill" posts this way. Then, he suddenly switches his reply-to to "Ians@met.net". Again, the reasons for this are unclear. Maybe because met.com changed ownership?
(They now belong to the Manhattan Ensemble Theater. They are still alive at www.met.com.)

Later, XR started posted using the reply-to address of "bill@ians.net". Whether this was ever an actual working address, and whether XR ever had any relation to ians.net, is still an unanswered question. What is/was Ians.net? Apparently the personal homepage/site of Ian McNish. It is still live and you can check it out HERE. Some people have theorized that Ian and "Bill"/XR are the same person. No evidence for this has been presented, and it is considered unlikely. Ian should be considered an innocent victim of XR's idiocy.

During this entire time, XR posted using a supernews.com account. His last known post from this account was in July 2000 (lost account? or maybe his ISP changed news providers). He then switches his reply-to to bill@Lans.net (note spelling). This time, he is using a usenetserver.com account - an account he will use for some time to come. He stuck with bill@Lans.net for a few weeks before switching back to bill@Ians.net.

Later, XR inexplicably changed to "bill@ians.com". Whether this was ever an actual working address, and whether XR ever had any relation to ians.com, is still an unanswered question. It seems completely unrelated to ians.net - (perhaps an attempt to hide his true identity?). What was Ians.com? Apparently a semi-adult clothing store in New York City.

XR makes one more change in his reply-to by changing it to "bill@Lans.com" for 2 weeks in February 2001, before the entity known as Bill seemingly disappears forever.

The ChinChang Dynasty

For a few days in June 2001, he went by a variety of pseudonyms, including "WonDumFul".

The Jeffassic Period

For about a month in 2001, XR went by the name "Jeff", using the initials "JYK" or "JK". Nothing notable really happened, except it was during this time that he finally started munging his address properly - after it was brought to his attention that his fake email addresses cause much unwanted spam for the owners of those domains. This also marks his last known posting from accessnv.com. They killed his account, mostly in thanks to the legendary kook-wrangler, Taylor Netscum.

The XR Era

In October 2001, XR first uses the XR#### system, going by XR2700. He posted from AOL during this time. Since it only lasted about 2 months, it is assumed that he was using one of those free trial CDs.

He later changes to XR2702 (using Compuserve - another trial CD?), then XR2701 (using wmconnect.com - WALMART!).
Interestingly, he chose to use XR2702 *before* XR2701. Also interesting is a post in 1998 by "XR2702". Was this post from *the* XR? Opinions are undecided at this time.

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