Thirty-five other Internet addresses were targeted last week, ranging from the prestigious president@whitehouse.gov to the evocative rage@us.disarray.com...Gene Steinberg, a free-lance writer from Scottsdale, Arizona, is convinced he made the hit list because he publicly defended America Online on a Usenet newsgroup called alt.aol.sucks.

-- Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Time magazine

"...his conspiracy theories about conspiracies against AOL are a little weird to say the least."

-- Ken Williams, 1995



Threats against critics - the AOL way
Conspiracy theorist history
Alt.aol-sucks reacts to Time's article.
"You're wrong! You're lying!'"
The Vendetta...
The Great Phone Debacle
A reader comments on Gene Steinberg




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