Re: Dr. Tom

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Andy Dreier (orion@chaven.com) wrote:
: Owsw (owsw@aol.com) wrote:

(snip)
: : 
: : First, my home was not locked.  Thus anybody that wanted could get in.
: : Breaking in was not an option.  I was gone for two days Feb. 1 - 8:30AM
: : thru Feb. 2, 1997.  I returned home around 10:30PM (PST) on Sunday -
: : 2/2/97.
: : 
(snip)
: : 
: : When I returned on 2/2/97 - Sunday night at about 10:30PM (PST) - I found
: : nothing disturbed and promptly went to bed.
: : 
: : Second, my computer was set up with auto logon and password active.  So,
: : anybody could have simply walked into my home, turned on the computer,
: : inserted a disk with the archives and uploaded them from my home, as if
: : they were me, from my acct with wco.com - to any ftp site they wished.  
: Yes, that is true. Unfortunately I simply don't buy it. For several reasons.
: I have seen you use similar tactics in the past, Turley, as Oliver Zardini
: &Joe have already pointed out. Sure, I would have been able to buy it once
: (MAYBE) but not twice, or three times.

It is even more unlikely. I received two e-mails from Charles Turley's
account on February 2. One of them was sent at 9:15, somewhat before he
alleges to have walked through his front door, but not _that_ much more.
The second was sent at 10:40, ten minutes after Dr. Tom is supposed to
have walked in.

The style of these e-mails is, in my opinion, Dr. Tom's style. A
sample:

>> I know exactly what I posted was exactly what I was told by a rep. from 
>> the tool-free number, from Corel, as I ref'ed in my original post.
(I've
>> 
>> made several other calls to the number and been told varying conflict 
>> stories also - such as; (A) they didn't know what I was talking about 
>> and hanging up on me... (B) you can't get that information from this 
>> number and I don't know who to tell you to talk to. (C) My supervisor 
>> does recall a conversation with another rep. to this effect. But we
here
>> 
>> have no such authority and you will have to call our corp. offices on 
>> the matter.... etc. and so on. I get (virtually) a different answer and 
>> response with each call to many varied numbers for Corel, including the 
>> tool-free order ref. number, mentioned in my post. People in large 
>> corps. often do make comments that the higher powers of the same giant 
>> corp are not aware of nor have the same information and/or comments on. 
>> Everything I based my information on was from voice tel. calls only. I 
>> have no email to back up what I posted.
>> 
>> This entire matter has turned into a very critical mess (IMHO) is 
>> beginning to make me look very, very bad, when I simply did what I 
>> thought was proper by making the post, as told to make it per 
>> information from supervisory personel and Order Rep. - via the ref.
tel.
>> 
>> tool-free number!

Stylistic judgement is tricky, but to me this sounds like him. I would
have a lot of trouble imitating this writing style, myself. I sent the
text of these to him, and his explanations are that:

1. He didn't send either of them
2. He never uses that account for e-mail

OK, so here is the thing - we are asked to believe that Dr. Tom has had
his name besmirched on former occasions by someone who walked into his
house and used his account to upload illegal software. We must further
believe that he, far from learning to lock his door, -again_ left it
unlocked and the computer with auto logon when he left home for two weeks.
The mysterious person not only logs on and uploads software to embarass
Tom, but reads his mail, replies to it giving details of his efforts to
benefit the Apple II community, and defends his reputation. Then, maybe an
hour before Tom got home, he sends me one e-mail. Ten minutes after the
time Tom got home, he sends me another one. This person must have
skedaddled just as he heard steps approaching the door.

Here's my problem- if the file uploading was done to discredit Tom, then
the e-mail makes no sense. If the e-mailer was trying to explain and
support Tom, then the file uploading makes no sense. Occam's razor rules
that Tom was home and sent me the messages. If he was home, then he has no
alibi for the LemminGS and Convert.3200 postings. QED

: everything you post only makes your situation look worse.
: 
:      Jeers
:       -Andy  

It is sad and ironic that, even with all the enemies that Charles Turley
does have, he is his own worst.

-Gareth