> BrianW hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>> On 6 Jul, 04:23, %%steve%%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

>>> BrianW hotmail.com> wrote:

>>>> Recently, you mentioned that Gollum once admitted that he views any
>>>> disagreement with him as a personal attack (can you post a link, if you
>>>> have it?).

>>> AF2541E296688D34A@noid.demon.co.uk

>> Thanks. Was he forced to give this apology, on pain of being expelled
>> from the group or something?

>
> The story is quite convoluted. He was "invited" to drop into demon.local
> by a regular with a reputation for stirring up trouble - a woman who had
> a silly game of flirting with men to see what their reaction was, and
> mocking the men in email to others and on IRC. Her tactic seemed to be
> to send them erotic poetry and to indulge in titilating email
> interchanges, which the poor dears took as a promise of delights to
> come.
>
> She flattered Duhg's ego and asked him into d.l. to take on the "cabal"
> of regular posters. Her behaviour was (to me) extraordinary she seemed
> to get a buzz out of getting various people to fall for her, then
> dropped them unceremoniously in public so that she could get a rush out
> of watching them self-destruct.
>
> Some behind the scenes email then went on and she was "shopped" by
> someone disgusted with her behaviour. Once she had been outed she was
> asked to get rid of her latest pet and she asked to Duhg to stop posting
> to the group, which he did. No one, AFAIK asked for the apology but it
> looks as if the love-smitten Duhg offered one voluntarily.
>
> He wasn't alone BTW, I can recall several individuals falling for the
> woman in question and doing some quite ridiculous things in order to
> secure her affection/attention. It resulted in a number of flounces from
> d.l and some extremely nasty interchanges between individuals. Duhg
> simply walked into something he didn't understand and was ill equipped
> to cope with.