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Father's Manifesto Madness & John Knight

Posted by Terry Howard @ 2/07/2007

Someone just pointed out this blast from the past to me and I can't stop laughing. Here's the backstory:

Way back in like 1995 or something I was on several email mailing lists sponsored by Lynda Weinman and her brother Bill. These were about web design and web sociology, basically the places where I got my true formal education on how to develop for the web. Well, one day some nutjob starting cross-posting nonsensical rants about, well, all the crazy junk you find on the site referenced above (not Lynda or Bill, the first one.) The odd thing was even after multiple members pointed out his mistake, he just kept right at it. There you'd be in the middle of a discussion about setting up HTML tables and this guy interjects some completely wacko 3 page rambling about how women are evil, stupid, eating babies, etc... Looking at his site I can't help but think that he could have stood to listen to some of the web design discussions a little more.

So I, like many on the list, kept sending him "cease and desist" emails and apparently mine impressed him enough to immortalize it on his site. I must admit, it is one of my proudest achievements. What I especially love is that on this page the email is linked referencing me as a "flaming feminazi". That is just badass. Doing a little research it's hard to determine if this guy John Knight is serious or the Father's Manifesto is some kind of hoax. It seems more like John Knight is some fringe activist that is burning more bridges with his Father's Manifesto than making allies among... other wackos I guess. Either way, it gives me a chuckle to know the cite is hanging out there.

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