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"My interest here is much more in getting this stuff into your hands than
in making money on the deal." - John Henry
"Oldtimers might find out about it and get pissed somebody is selling a
tape of them to God knows who. I'm guessing the tape was made as a momento
for the RSPWers in attendence?" - Allan J. Benson
"Please remove me from all your DVD shills. You know, Chris Palacios is
really EASY to find and it's a shame you didn't bother to even talk to the
man before you started spamming. But this seems to be a common theme." - Christopher Robin Zimmerman
"I spent three MONTHS trying to track Chrispy down, and I didn't want to
sit on this project any longer. I figured that if nothing else, he'd raise
his head when he heard about the project, at which point he and I could
discuss what kind of percentage we can agree is fair. Certainly I want to ensure that he gets his due; at least a buck on each DVD, maybe two, maybe
even a little more." - John Henry
"Maybe it's that I thought it would be worthwhile and interesting to make
the '95 RSPWCon tape, but I couldn't afford to do it for free so I thought
I'd ask for a fair compensation for the materials and my time in editing
it down. It genuinely never occurred to me that it would be a problem.
When it became one, I dropped it. I just thought it would be cool if
people could see it, and it would make a good reference for the video
editing work I was trying to do. That was a problem with the guy who made
the original tape, which I didn't forsee happening." - John Henry (on why
he thinks CRZ dislikes him)
"Mr. DeJong: The footage that is being advertised on http://www.lowgenius.com/rspw/rspw95dvd.htm is being sold without the authorization of the owner, namely me. I am requesting that this DVD no
longer be offered for sale. Should you continue to sell this footage, I
will be forced to take legal action. Sincerely, Christopher Palacios" -
Chrispy (in an e-mail reproduced by John Henry)
"Some people can be such dicks. What the fuck is on this DVD that people
are so afraid of for christ's sake? Oh well. I could fight and argue about
it, but I won't. Say goodbye to the DVD kids. Once again, the return on investment for doing cool shit in and for RSPW is a kick in the fucking
teeth. Assholes." - John Henry
"Is it possible that, had if Chris Palacios and I been able to make
contact under better circumstances, I would have made the point that it
might be possible to do without breaking Chris' agreement that he would be
the only one allowed to make copies and distrubute it - indeed, it would
have been nothing to contact Tom Misnik or Todd Gordon and at least find
out whether you'd have to actually deal with Vince to get permission to distribute the tape? Because far as I can tell, Chris' camera work notwithstanding, if *anyone* would have a *legal* claim to order me not to
sell them, it would be whoever owns all of ECWs trademarks and the tape library. Other than a few key spots - like the 'hi my name is blah blah
bla and the first thing I remember about RSPW was that thread where so and
so did the other thing' sequence that I planned to use as an introduction -
it was almost all wrestling/wrestler footage, especially the stuff from
Public Enemy. I think I left part of the bus getting stuck sequence in
there, some other bits. The point is, from a strictly *legal* stanpoint,
I'm not sure Chrispy has standing to *really* stop me from doing that
DVD." - John Henry
"I *could* be as big an asshole about this as some other folks seem to
want to be - after all, there's no copyright notice on the tape, no
indication of ownership, and given that I've completely re-edited the
footage anyway, a case could certainly be made for it being a "dervative work."" - John Henry


Entry:
LowGenius Digital Imaging
Year: 2003
Description:
John offers a DVD burning service.
Links:
"RSPW Website" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/X9VML6z-J4M/m/xOMm1Qx8k8kJ "(META) RSPW - The book????" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/j30Hej0_EbU/m/WxSRM6XLiE4J Quotes:
"It's my understanding that the three of you have discussed perhaps
throwing a few bucks in the kitty to help keep the server online; best way
to do this is via the paypal donation page ("Support") at LowGenius.Com, although I'll be adding a similar page to RSPW.Net in the near future. I
won't hold it against anyone if I don't see anything come in, but if you
can and you want to, that's the best mechanism. We're taken care of for
this month thanks to the largesse of Dr. Mike Palij; he would appreciate
that NOT being made public, since theoretically he doesn't read RSPW any
more. Mike has been a big help to me over the last six months, having
ordered stacks of stickers and DVDs from me (and indeed, he bought me the
video card and DVD burner so I could open the DVD business at
lowgenius.com) so I'd appreciate it if his wishes were respected in this matter." - Scutt Farkus (quoting John Henry DeJong's message to the RSPW
FAQ mailing list)
"Never, EVER make an agreement with a bill collector for an e-payment,
they'll fuck you hard on it. In my case, I told them to set up a payment
for March 31st, and they put it through on the 15th...when the moneey
wasn't there. Consequently, not only did it bounce, but three *other* transactions, all for piddling amounts of money (like, $5 in gas), also
bounced with a $30 overdraft charge for each one, causing my account to suddenly and unexpectedly go about $200 overdrawn...and me with no income. Consequntly, the money that I had stashed there for my hosting is also gone...which really fucks up my whole business plan, and completely pisses
me off, but that's life. Such are the rewards for trying to "do the right thing" and get these back bills paid down, rather than just copping out,
filing for bankruptcy, and basically fucking everybody by forcing them to
eat my outstanding debt; I guess if things don't start looking up by the
middle of April, I'll have to just file Chapter 7...and then nobody gets
paid anything, since I don't even own enough shit for the court to bother forcing me to liquidate (apparently federal bankruptcy law puts the
threshold at $3500 in assets, which I certainly don't have). (Just finally peeked at my bank balance after the nightmare day I had yesterday dealing
with all this crap, and I'm actually only about $130 overdrawn, which
means I only need to bring in about $150 to get that taken care of and
keep my site online. Come on, RSPW, surely you've got some comp tapes
you'd like to have on DVD? It's super cheap, only $30 to convert 2 hours
of tape to a 2-hour DVD! If just 6 people go to the site at www.lowgenius.com/dvd and order the basic conversion for a single tape, my
ass will be covered and you'll get a high-quality DVD to call your very
own~!) PS: Don't forget I also do domain registration and web hosting for
a very reasonable fee~!" - John Henry
"I mean, let's face it John...it's all your fucking fault here. It's not
the e-billing, it's not the bank's. You were the idiot who kept putting
all your money towards your website and the hosting & technical fees
rather than buying toilet paper, food, supplies, etc." - Alex Cain
"The site is, at least potentially, a real generator of income[...] It's
become more and more obvious that I'm just not oging to get anywhere in
the current IT market, so I use the website(s) to generate a little money.
I don't want to be a bullshit artist or a scammer, so I have to come up
with my own ideas." - John Henry
"A friend generously loaned me some equipment that allowed me to expand on
my already-existing abilities and so forth, and get into this VHS to DVD
thing which, IMO, is potentially a genuine moneymaker, especially if I can manage to parlay it into something more than "just" copying people's home videos. That's a start, but I'm also doing photo restoration, and even reselling domain names and web hosting at a reasonable price, converting
video to streaming internet media, and so forth." - John Henry
"Thanks to my generous friend, I have started this little business, which
is reliant on the website. I know that there are a few dozen people
reading this message who have old videotapes of cherished events lying
around - a wedding, birthday, maybe a wrestling comp tape or a collection
of their favorite Dan Severn matches - that they'd like to preserve for a
good long time. I'd like to help them out with that, for, of course, a
small fee, which compensates me for my time, materials, and expertise.
Some folks don't really understand that magnetic tape has a limited
lifespan - 7, 10, 15 years, and that sucker's gone, and there's no getting
it back. If a few of those people care to stop by my site and place an
order - or if they're a little hesitant, feel free to e-mail or phone me
with questions - then perhaps I will be able to keep the site open for
another month, or more. More importantly than that, perhaps I won't be
left with *no choice* but to file for bankruptcy and go on welfare..." -
John Henry
"Heck, maybe some day, I'll be able to give someone else like me the break
they need. I'd also love to donate some of my time to preserving historic
film, videotape, and photographs, but I have to be making some kind of
money before I can really afford to do that. That kind of potential impact, both in my life, and in the world-at-large, seems well worth the $10 a
month for web space and $7,95 per year for domain registration that I
spend." - John Henry


Entry:
LowGenius Toolbar
Year:
2004
Description:
John asks RSPW to install software described by journalists as malware.
Links:
"Please Consider The Free LowGenius.Com IE Toolbar" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/i6kQdSF0pzE/m/bPbFQjVte4AJ Quotes:
"I just snagged a pretty nifty bit of technology that I"m trying to
convince people to use. It's a free LowGenius.Com toolbar [...] It helps
me out by raising my traffic rating when you visit my site with the
toolbar on, for one thing. For another, if you use it to either search
amazon or jump to amazon (there's an amazon button on it) and then buy something, I get a small cut of the purchase price, which helps me pay my server bill. It's painless, and doesn't do anything that the Google
toolbar doesn't do in terms of tracking your web surfing." - John Henry
"You're a bigger prick than I thought." - Curtis Blofeld
"Comparing this toolbar to a trojan is like comparing a sneeze to the
final stages of AIDS. Dvorak should be ashamed of himself for writing such melodramatic nonsense." - John Henry (in response to Hack-Man posting an article from PC Magazine characterizing toolbars as trojans)
"Go fuck yourself. You just summed up everything I hate about the internet.
I don't use Internet Explorer, I don't need to install browser wrecking toolbars, I don't buy shit off of Amazon, I don't want to visit your
god-damned site, and I sure as hell don't want to pay your fucking server
bill. This the most insulting piece of self-indulgent bullshit I've ever
seen." - Rockboy


Entry:
LowGenius 9-11 Tribute Store
Year:
2003-2005
Description:
John hawks wallpapers and calendars to RSPW.
Links:
"[$hill] I think y'all will dig this..." groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/6oc6EGzUN5I/m/pXtA01RMBQAJ
"I Remind You: RedPaper.Com" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/J-uEyGjm23A/m/sG328yWKI5QJ "LowGenius 9-11 Tribute Store" web.archive.org/web/20040106011600/http://www.cafeshops.com/lowgenius
"The 2004 Otherworld Calendar" web.archive.org/web/20040118110254/http://www.lulu.com/content/30701
Quotes:
"I've got my first cafepress item for sale - a 12-month wall calendar of
my original 3D artwork, stunningly rendered in red, blue, AND green~! Seriously, I've been selling these graphics on redpaper.com for 15 cents
each as 1600x1200 desktop wallpaper, and I've had a lot of good reviews.
Now I've made them into much higher quality images and put them on a
calendar. I think they'll make an excellent gift for those people that you don't really know what else to get 'em, like bosses and mothers-in-law.
Please take a look, and enjoy. I've priced the calendar at only $2 over
markup, which is cheap IMO. Plus all of the transaction and fulfillment is
done via cafepress, so you needn't worry about sharing your credit card
number with me or any of that." - John Henry
"Thanks for stopping by, I'm glad you came! The LowGenius Online Store at CafeShops.Com is the exclusive home on the internet for various 9-11
tribute items featuring JohnHenry's original and critically acclaimed
digital artwork, "Reflections of Terror." 10% of all profits derived from
the sale of these items will be donated to the Red Cross." - John Henry
"I appreciate your positive feedback re: the "Otherworlds" calendar.
Hopefully someone will actually *buy* one ;-)" - John Henry
"GO GET A JOB AND GET OFF WELFRE you fucking drug using idiot." - Avenger


Entry:
LowGenius Fundraiser
Year:
2005-2007, 2010
Description:
John raises funds to pay for daily expenses and capital equipment.
Links:
"We should donate to the lowgenius fundraiser" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/dcHAL1v5R48/m/kTEsKXGKADkJ "LowGenius Tip Jar" web.archive.org/web/20051214094303/http://www.lowgenius.com/fundraiser.asp "John Henry Begs For Money Again" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/weXgxXlr4Cw/m/Th1kejlq2jwJ "Randomly dropping by" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Q14ovijPXlc/m/SCGleS3kqgYJ
"I Need Your Help" web.archive.org/web/20100717012649/http://www.lowgenius.net/post/2010/06/16 /I-Need-Your-Help.aspx
"Wish Lists" web.archive.org/web/20130326062949/http://www.lowgenius.net/page/Wish-Lists .aspx
Quotes:
"As a few of you might be aware, I moved briefly last year to Winters, CA before getting jerked around hard, thrown under a bus, and begging my way
back across the country to my home town of Kalamazoo, MI. If anyone sees
Ahmed Johnson's Beer Belly, tell him I said get in touch next time he's in town. I'm easy to find." - John Henry
"Starting a business isn't easy, and while I've (obviously) had some
customers, it's not been enough to keep me eating [...] It has, along with
my work with The Road Less Traveled Theatre, been enough to keep me in a position where I don't have time for a 'real job.' Unfortunately, however,
I do have the needs of a 'real life.' There is a bunch of more in-depth information contained in the bulleted list below, but here's the gist of
it: if something you've found on one of my sites or blogs has helped you,
or if you're just a good person with a little spare cash who wants to help
me do the various things I do, you can make a contribution using your
major credit card, e-check, or PayPal account by clicking the 'Donate'
button below." - John Henry
"Due to a crisis that has come up, I’ve put a call out for contributions
to help purchase the first computer on this list. If you are not
comfortable making a cash contribution, you can buy an electronic gift
card from tigerdirect.com and send it to me via e-mail (john @ lowgenius . com), in any amount from $10-$1000." - John Henry
"What is your definition of a 'real job?' I work very hard at what I do, oftentimes 6-7 days a week. I just don't get paid for it. [...] If you mean 'why don't you go work for someone,' in a nutshell it's like this: I am an experienced, but non-degreed, IT professional in a technology-poor area
just outside of one of the most talent-saturated regions of the world. You can't throw a stick in RTP without hitting a Computer Scientist, and unfortunately since the economy went south a few years ago, getting a job
in IT in this area without a degree is basically impossible. Conversely, because of my field expertise and work history, when I went through a
period of diligently applying for every job available that I was the least
bit qualified to do (i.e. working on assembly lines or what have you), I
was always 'overqualified.' I'm stuck in a fairly unique gray area between
not being paper-qualified to do what I'm actually qualified to do, and
being far, far over-qualified to do anything else like being a factory
worker or taking a McJob somewhere. I've actually applied to places like McDonalds and WalMart, and they basically laughed in my face." - John Henry (responding to "Why don't you get a real job?")
"So it's come ‘round again: JH is stuck with no money, no income, and no chance of getting either via any traditional method. I hate doing this,
this asking for money crap. It makes me feel like a panhandling bum trying
to scam crack money. Unfortunately, the reality is I've never at any time
in my life been able to live comfortably. The vast majority of my life
has been spent in borrowed living – friends and family who open their
homes to me for short periods, or sleeping in my car or elsewhere on the streets. I've only avoided sleeping at drop-in centers and missions by
virtue of not wanting to have the few possessions I own stolen from me.
I'm not a junkie. I'm not a bum. I'm not a scam artist. Heck, if I was
a scam artist I'd just wrap myself in a bible and flag and then making
money would be easy. Unfortunately, I have a sense of integrity and
ethics – unlike the vast majority of people who make money thumping the
bible and the flag – that precludes me from manipulating friends and
strangers. I want to earn your help. I believe I *am* earning your help.
By spending my time staying aware of the current events and world issues
that confront us, using the gifts I was given at birth to strip away the media-generated bullshit that surrounds them and present you with the
objective reality as I see it – and yes, that reality often has a bias – I fulfill my purpose as a human being[...] I am the embodiment of
21st-century journalism and media[...] What am I asking for? Well,
obviously the big pipe dream is for someone with a whole bunch of extra
cash to drop it on me and go “Okay, JH, you go be JH and we'll sit back
and watch.” I don't think that's going to happen. But what could happen
is a whole lot of people could donate a few bucks. Heck, if everyone in
the US gave me one cent I'd have almost four million dollars. Maybe you
don't have any cash to spare…but I bet you've got some friends. I bet you
know someone who'd either enjoy or hate what I've got to say – either way they'll feel strongly about it – and if you tell them about me and they
come see my site or my videos or whatever, and then they tell their
friends, the whole thing snowballs, I go viral, and maybe I can actually
start bringing this wisdom and sagacity that people keep telling me I have
to a wider audience. Hell, maybe if we work together – by which I mean I
do all the work and You The People help keep me alive and able to do so
with your contributions – I can actually get enough people paying
attention to make a difference. Wouldn't it be cool if I got over enough
to start saying the things I say on…oh, say the Daily Show, or Morning Joe,
or even O'Reilly?" - John Henry
""You should give money to me because I'm important, I'm a genius and if
you don't, you're a hypocrite" the marketing needs work" - Crapgame13
"He talks big shit about how smart he is then says he can't get a job and
begs for money. I guess McDonalds $6/hour is too good for him. I also lol
at his "if I had $30K I'd never need to work again" comment. Is he going
to live in a shed and eat nothing but ramen noodles for the next 30
years?" - ScottH
"I like the comment, "If I had $30K, I'd be set for life." And I was
amused by how he said he wasn't one of those folks who wrap themselves in
the flag or Bible, yet he is using the same kind of ploy by saying, "If
you don't give, my web site will disappear," just like a guy who says, "If
you don't give, then my program goes off the air." I also note that he
says, "I don't use hard drugs," as if to say that he uses drugs that aren't "hard." And where does he get the money for those "non-hard" drugs?" -
trijcomm
"I do have to say he's an above average talker, but the begging for money
at his age is truly pathetic." - Vin Broccoli
"Anyone [...] is always welcome to get in touch, add me on your favorite
social network, whatever. Especially if you're in a position of having
enough money to want to give MAJOR - like six figure - support to a
non-profit devoted to developing the Kalamazoo area as a worldwide talent incubator for rock, pop, blues, country, and other musicians." - John Henry
"I don't know what's more pathetic, him for begging for donations so he
can go get wasted because he can't or refuses to get a real job, or you
for stalking him." - GregoryD


Entry:
Student Loans
Year:
2004, 2010-2013
Description:
John returns to school a couple of times.
Links:
"Who really is John Henry DeJong?" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Qv-9qyJ3DHs/m/FMNucOm4ZmsJ "(META) RSPW's required reading for this week" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/QlPbfe0W6hY/m/okv0QTO4Y5AJ
"40 Year Old Freshman" web.archive.org/web/20110129031950/http://www.40yearoldfreshman.com/
"Life As A 40 Year Old Freshman - Latest Comments" web.archive.org/web/20130817073029/http://40yearoldfreshman.disqus.com/late st.rss
Quotes:
"I got caught with no degree in an employment downturn in my sector and
lost everything[...] That's no secret. It's the predictable result of bad choices I made when I was young. That's why I'm in school - to try and
prevent it from happening again. In short: So I don't end up being a fifty-something homeless dumpster-diving plagiarizing pedophile who gets
off on threatening little old ladies." - John Henry (in 2004)
"Your generous contributions help keep me in school, keep my bills paid,
and keep this website online, including paying for everything it takes to produce the content here from gas money to spare time, furniture to food.
Make no mistake: without your help, I'm just another college drop-out
sucking up entitlement money. Click the card-bar to do what you can.
Thank you!" - John Henry (in 2011)
"Part of the purpose of this site is to raise money so I can afford to go
to college. While loans and grants are more readily available now than
they were four years ago even, there still is not enough available to pay
for life. I have rent. I have to eat. My car is slowly dying. I have
to pay to keep this website and my other sites online. I need to be able
to pay to go out and do things that will actually be entertaining for you
to read about here. 4 years of “I went to class today” is not going to be
the next viral sensation. So yes, there is advertising here and yes there
are and will be prominent links asking visitors to pitch in and help me
stay in school and keep this site up and interesting[...] Hopefully I
attract enough traffic that I can live on contributions and ad revenue
from this site and my other online work" - John Henry
"Just make sure you tell as many people as possible and please help if you
can whether that's moral support or positive feedback and encouragement or contributions of cash or other things I may need or want over the course
of the next 6-8 years as I pursue my doctorate, please and thank you." -
John Henry
"I'd actually thought about donating a few buck until the line that
essentially said 'I need to party to keep this blog interesting' and the
lack of a goal[...] I give it 2 semesters/quarters." - Mhoram
"Broke one day, going to college the next. But always begging for money!
Always be a failure." - Corky's Nemesis
"You knew I would "like" it - and you will make it. What ever it takes you
will do. And pay it forward." - Elizabeth Eastman Lankford
"I'm hoping I can pay it forward to a whole bunch of people before it's
all said and done." - John Henry

Entry:
Wikipedia
Year:
2015
Description:
John's user page is deleted for spamming.
Links:
"A List Of Wikipedia Sockpuppeteers" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/53Evo29I2Jw/m/f48ogOyk1QcJ "User:John Henry DeJong" web.archive.org/web/20230807115113/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_ Henry_DeJong

Quotes:
"A list of suspected sockpuppets of an abusive user originally
registered with Wikipedia as "Dick Witham"[...] * User:John Henry DeJong (renamed)" - Nemesis (reproducing Wikipedia category "Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Dick Witham")
"The vandal (see: User:John_Henry_DeJong_(renamed) formerly registered
under my name has been relieved of it, and I have taken possession of this
user name and will begin editing articles soon! Thanks to all for your
generous assistance." - John Henry DeJong
"My name is John Henry DeJong, I commonly go by John Henry in public life.
I own and operate several websites which I included here in the earlier
version of my bio because they help establish my credibility in certain subjects. Apparently some bloke in the UK thought it appropriate to label
this "advertising" and vandalize/delete my entire user page, which is a
pretty rude and obnoxious thing to do[...] I guess if anyone wants to know
who I am and how to get in touch, they'll have to google it. Enjoy your
bizarre and counter-productive power trip, and let me know if and when Wikipedia gets back to founding principles. I'll be happy to add my
efforts when I'm not treated something that someone stepped in simply
because I include the URLs to my sites in my user bio - a bio that, incidentally, sat here just fine from September 2005 to April 2015 before
one delusional twit decided it was "unambiguous advertising" and
unilaterally nuked it." - lowgenius


Entry:
The End?
Year:
2000, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2018, 2023
Description:
John announces his intentions to the newsgroup.
Links:
"[META] You win." groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/dKH-OfUYYuk/m/-N1xJnpSemkJ "ANNOUNCEMENT: My Retirement From Usenet" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/qEibuOP9oIo/m/NQW5ber22ccJ
"(ping RWA-RSPokerW) WSOP and ESPN sign new seven year pact" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/y5i7uW4dAuc/m/AkBBojkmhD8J "(META) RSPW's required reading for this week" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/QlPbfe0W6hY/m/okv0QTO4Y5AJ
"The John Henry show continues. That Damned Cain is Keeping JH Down!" groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/xy8pOrog2k0/m/ILg4IoKRBAAJ
"Let's all have a pity party for John." groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/o9WszRv_PWU/m/Wokl9m1ABgAJ Quotes:
"I realize that the sick bastards among you will write this off as a
sympathy ploy, or a work, or whatever, but I am literally in tears as I
write this, torn between taking my own life for the good of my child and
every poor soul that has been touched by the blackened disease that is my life....and taking a few other people out before I go. Right now, yeah,
man, I'm pretty well out of my mind. But, I'm broke, I don't have the gas
money to get to DC or Griffin GA or NYC. There's nothing I can do except
sit here and know, now, that there is damn little humanity left in human beings." - John Henry
"Now you can come and kill me, thats fine, you're a grown man and you can
do what you want, but you know what, you've shown a pattern just from me reading some silly troll and flame posts from you, that show you to be an off-balanced, demented person." - PeteKOF
"I have been working with my group on a deal which will likely bring me to low-key but national prominence in the theatrical and non-profit communities[...] this new situation that has developed involves a
high-profile relationship with some major corporations and non-profit organizations which are doing tremendously important work to promote the
arts and education, especially among poor and minority youth, and I will
be involved with this process on a long-term, ongoing, daily basis. After
long and deep consideration, I have come to the conclusion that I can not,
in good conscience, risk having these kids exposed to the kind of sickness
that resides in the likes of Dink[...] When you're talking about deals
worth tens or even hundreds of thousands (or even millions, over a fairly
short period of time) of dollars that will benefit untold numbers of kids
who might otherwise be lost to drug abuse, illiteracy, parental neglect or abuse, and all the other things that children in our society face each and every
day...well, you have to step back and reassess things[...] So, almost
precisely 9 years to the day after my first Usenet post, I big you all
adieu, and my many thanks to you all for your friendship and comradierie throughout the last decade of my life. Being insane here has helped keep
me sane in the real world over the years, and I've grown beyond that insanity...and now I have the change to finally make a positive difference
in a way that I have not been able to since I was playing to crowds of
15,000 or more" - John Henry
"I just don't have the time or interest to play stupid here anymore, and I haven't for a long time. I appreciate having RSPW around to sharpen my rhetorical claws on for several years, and I especially appreciate the friendships I've formed here over the years, but I've moved on to other things." - John Henry
"Ugh. Clearly, leaving Usenet when I did was the right move. There
appears to be nothing but stupid, crazy, and Chad left. Unplugging. Now I understand why my guy inside FB told me he'd "never seen anything like
this, there are THOUSANDS of these accounts, every single one of them
doing nothing but being created, reading your pages, and mass-reporting anything that's got a snowball's chance in hell of getting you banned by
the idiots in abuse. I don't know who you pissed off, bud, but this level
of concentrated fuckery usually only shows up against prominent political figures." Now I understand. Pity he can't give me hard data without
risking his job...but he assures me the information I need is available,
it just has to be subpoenad before they can release it. Man, fuck all this. Thanks for the final confirmation that this species isn't worth trying to
save. Hopefully I've still got a few good years left to learn some new
music or something." - John Henry
"LEAVE ME ALONE. I've paid my atonement - for the last ten years of being unemployable and having the idiocy of this stupid newsgroup and all that
goes with it follow me around my offline life like a dead fish in my shoe,
I've paid. Living on the streets, fucking STARVING sometimes - literally sleeping in my van and eating canned ravioli bought with emergency food
stamps with a plastic fork and a "general delivery" mailing address,
unable to have anything decent in my life, all because I ran my stupid
mouth on a fucking rasslin' newsgroup. My debt is paid, and paid, and paid.
I am no longer part of your world, and those of you with malicious intent
need to understand something very, very clearly: *You do not want me to
become part of your world again.*" - John Henry
"I've been trying to shake the stink of this dump out of my hair for
basically two decades now." - John Henry

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