The original prolific person was Lauren Weinstein. He's been on "the net"
since "the net" meant the ARPANET and associated mailing lists. I remember
once in the early 1980's he said "I read everything" (referring to all the
mailing lists and few newsgroups there were) and we believed him.
Once someone submitted an excellent parody called "Lauren Digest" which
was full of forged submisssions from Lauren on every subject known to
the net. I don't have a copy of it anymore.
Another excellent early joke was by Brad Templeton somewhere around 1982:
"How many Usenet people does it take to change a light bulb." This
definitely belongs in the archives. Brad - do you still have a copy?
Mark
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