As many of my friends know, I'm occasionally harassed by one of the longest-running trolls on the internet, one Jason Christopher Hughes, aka Luis Manuel Arsupial, aka Michael Rudra Nath. Mr. Hughes/Arsupial/Nath occasionally gets onto Google Talk to pester me, and is the source of much amusement. Lately, he's taken to posting various comments about me under the name of "Sandy Laphon", which he boldly buries deep in the back entries of various blogs here and there; he's subsequently found himself banned from most of them.
Mr. Hughes/Arsupial/Nath just got into contact with me again to claim that he's an advisor to Richard Stallman. He offers the following as evidence:
2:53:30 PM Lefty: like I said, if RMS is taking his cues from you, the FSF will be history inside of a year.
2:56:35 PM Sandy Laphon: here you go, you miserable old cocksucker
2:56:37 PM Sandy Laphon: From Richard Stallman Tue Oct 6 20:13:59 2009
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Subject: Re: useful rant from Lefty the Troll
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2:57:02 PM Lefty: heh.
2:57:12 PM Lefty: Is this supposed to prove something?
2:57:30 PM Lefty: I'd imagine it must say, "Who the hell are you?"
2:58:13 PM Lefty: well, if RMS wants to kill his own credibility by continuing to engage in personal attacks, that's his lookout.
As I note, he sadly did not include the body of the message, which might be even more interesting. If Stallman is indeed taking advice from this person, that would likely explain his recent series of personal attacks on Miguel de Icaza and myself. It's an interesting contrast: I expressed dismay about what RMS had to say; he attacks me on a personal level, as "a troll-like enemy of the free software movement".
Email headers are, of course, pretty trivial to forge, but I still find this out-of-left-field claim quite intriguing. Anyone from the FSF want to comment on this? I've written Peter Brown, who disappointingly doesn't seem to have any response to make.
