Dear Demon Internet,
Yeah, this isn't a Demon Internet bashing post. More a sort of, well, kind of, an apology.
There are still nutters who think an IP address is as good as a street address, and Google kinda helps here.
All niche web sites and chat rooms get nutters, even seemingly intelligent, literate long term members can flip if the correct keywords or sequences of phrases are used. I imagine some of them as believing themselves to be the Internet equivalent of a cold war sleeper.
I got death threats for using 'centripetal force' not....

CENTRI FUCKING FUGAL FORCE YOU FUCKING CUNT NOT FUCKING CENTRI FUCKING PETAL was the initial response I got.
Wikipedia wasn't around, but it was no matter to respond and cite to support my initial answer to the question. I don't feel the need to outline the actual transcript, but I was polite, courteous and provided links to and attributed c&p in responses. Maybe that was the trigger?. How to drive a nutter over the edge by being polite. Death by being English through and through :-)

He, genius he was, posted Demon's address and proudly proclaimed, in capitals, that he was going to come round and do various things to me which made me think he was a qualified butcher. Possibly scary. That I was online meant I was in.
Come round for a cup of tea, invited I. I wonder if he went round and scared the shyte out of anyone there.

Never posted again. We so wanted him to, but he never did. OK, nothing unusual there. Nutter goes off on one, realises he's been a dick and drops that username or just never posts again.

My signature file at the time included my name, company name, telephone number and street address. 200 or so miles north of wherever in London(ish) that exchange was located. Every bloody reply I gave had that info. Every single one, I could be traced so easily by just putting my name into something like 192.com but no, he demonstrated his leet skills with a few lookups and a whois query.
Had he rung the number, he would have got to speak to me directly, or by looking the company up, my boss.

Bless 'em one and all.
( moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 19:56, 7 replies)

The joke's on him:
centrifugal force is a myth.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 21:50, closed)

Please
Don't. I now have this vision of some nutter living in the bushes mid-roundabout, muttering into his beflead, crawling beard about 'it must exist. they are called centrifuges.itmustexistmyprecious. i'll ram his fucking -petal- down his throat. they call them centrifuges for a reason.

No caps now, his speech low and soft, his words practised night after night, day after day as he watches vehicles circulating the roundabout, proving it -must- be centrifugal...

You've met similar?
( moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 22:43, closed)

To be honest, no.
All this has done is remind me how much I regret not studying physics at a higher level than GCSE.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 29 Nov 2012, 9:28, closed)

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( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 29 Nov 2012, 8:55, closed)

Sorry, "Nutter ... realises he's been a dick": never happens.
Not even when presented with solid, incontrovertible, peer-reviewed evidence to prove he's been a dick.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 29 Nov 2012, 10:31, closed)

I retract that section.
You are correct, Master.
whack-job + incontrovertible evidence = unstoppable force + immovable object.
Net result?, an increase of crayon poisoning and a rise in the sale of 'monitor screen wipes with added fleck-of-spittle-be-gone!'*




*no guarantee against gobbets of lung butter.
( moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Thu 29 Nov 2012, 10:43, closed)

I just learned something
on B3ta
( Locus213 Slightly to the left of Bakunin, Thu 29 Nov 2012, 11:34, closed)