Apparently so. A sober judgement based on his writing and actions seems to
indicate that he belong to some kind of extreme political group - either on
the extreme right or the extreme left. He might (may be not so likely) be
one of the few surviving communists or (perhaps more likely) represent some
version of Neo Nazism. He could also be an extreme Christian fundamentalist.
Whatever he might be (and all the above mentioned with few more extreme
groups are all less different than they might themselves believe) - a troll
he sure is!

Nik.

And who is "Bear"?

winax23-046.dialup.optusnet.com.au

About Alan Erskine

alanerskine@optusnet.com.au

Alan Erskine is a well known Australian netkook, psychopath, and coward
who lives in Melbourne.  He usually stalks and harasses the posters of the
sci.space groups, although he is known to make excursions into a wide range
of other groups for the purposes of trolling and stalking and harassing the
participants there.  He is currently under investigation by the authorities
in Australia.  If you fall victim to his frequent attacks and
stalking/harassment campaigns, like so many in the sci.space groups have,
notify abuse@optusnet.com.au .  This psycho is dangerous.

Most sane participants have been forced to killfile him for his frequent
violent outbursts at posters and his unrelenting attacks.  Some are taking
legal action against him.

Here are just a few of his victims.  He has been stalking and harrasing
Scott and Betty Grissom relentlessly.  Scott Grissom is the son of Gus
Grissom, the second American in space, who died in an Apollo 1 training
exercise fire, and Betty Grissom, 75, is his widow.

Alan has also been waging long-time stalking and harassment campaigns
against other well-known members of the space community, including Richard
Katz of NASA, John Maxson, and his sons Paul and Daniel Maxson.  He has
even gone so far as to threaten to kill the entire Maxson family.

He has been known to stalk his victims anonymously and via sock puppets,
showing what a coward he is.  Furthermore, he likes to challenge people to
fights, telling them to come to Melbourne and look him up in the phone
book, while having admitted elsewhere that he is not listed in the phone
book.  Coward!

Alan is an enemy of freedom of speech and hates remailers, which serve a
useful and necessary purpose.  He has resorted to impersonating others and
even himself through remailers in an effort to discredit remailers and make
it look like others were attacking him through them.  He regularly bombards
remailer operators with hysterical complaints and threats and floods their
mailboxes.

Alan is currently on one of his psychotic crusades, this time to get people
to killfile posts from remailers in order to prevent word of his misdeeds
from getting out.  Alan is a Nazi, he wants to be able to say whatever he
wants about others but doesn't want anyone to mention him.  He wants to
express himself freely but wants to shut others up and, not only that,
wants others to do as he says, read only the messages he approves of, etc.
He wants to police, rule, and control newsgroups and people like the
perfect little jackbooted Nazi he is.

Alan is not just content to harass his victims in the newsgroups, he
usually also stalks them via email.  If you find yourself on the receiving
end of Alan's famous psychotic emails, contact abuse@optusnet.com.au
immediately, as well as the law enforcement agencies in Melbourne,
Australia.  This psycho is very violent.  Do not attempt to reason
with him yourself, many others have tried and he does not respond to
reason.  Let the authorities deal with him.

And who is "Bear"?

winax23-046.dialup.optusnet.com.au

About Alan Erskine

alanerskine@optusnet.com.au

Alan Erskine is a well known Australian netkook, psychopath, and coward
who lives in Melbourne.  He usually stalks and harasses the posters of the
sci.space groups, although he is known to make excursions into a wide range
of other groups for the purposes of trolling and stalking and harassing the
participants there.  He is currently under investigation by the authorities
in Australia.  If you fall victim to his frequent attacks and
stalking/harassment campaigns, like so many in the sci.space groups have,
notify abuse@optusnet.com.au .  This psycho is dangerous.

Most sane participants have been forced to killfile him for his frequent
violent outbursts at posters and his unrelenting attacks.  Some are taking
legal action against him.

Here are just a few of his victims.  He has been stalking and harrasing
Scott and Betty Grissom relentlessly.  Scott Grissom is the son of Gus
Grissom, the second American in space, who died in an Apollo 1 training
exercise fire, and Betty Grissom, 75, is his widow.

Alan has also been waging long-time stalking and harassment campaigns
against other well-known members of the space community, including Richard
Katz of NASA, John Maxson, and his sons Paul and Daniel Maxson.  He has
even gone so far as to threaten to kill the entire Maxson family.

He has been known to stalk his victims anonymously and via sock puppets,
showing what a coward he is.  Furthermore, he likes to challenge people to
fights, telling them to come to Melbourne and look him up in the phone
book, while having admitted elsewhere that he is not listed in the phone
book.  Coward!

Alan is an enemy of freedom of speech and hates remailers, which serve a
useful and necessary purpose.  He has resorted to impersonating others and
even himself through remailers in an effort to discredit remailers and make
it look like others were attacking him through them.  He regularly bombards
remailer operators with hysterical complaints and threats and floods their
mailboxes.

Alan is currently on one of his psychotic crusades, this time to get people
to killfile posts from remailers in order to prevent word of his misdeeds
from getting out.  Alan is a Nazi, he wants to be able to say whatever he
wants about others but doesn't want anyone to mention him.  He wants to
express himself freely but wants to shut others up and, not only that,
wants others to do as he says, read only the messages he approves of, etc.
He wants to police, rule, and control newsgroups and people like the
perfect little jackbooted Nazi he is.

Alan is not just content to harass his victims in the newsgroups, he
usually also stalks them via email.  If you find yourself on the receiving
end of Alan's famous psychotic emails, contact abuse@optusnet.com.au
immediately, as well as the law enforcement agencies in Melbourne,
Australia.  This psycho is very violent.  Do not attempt to reason
with him yourself, many others have tried and he does not respond to
reason.  Let the authorities deal with him.