James Bottomley (Usenet innovator)
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James Bottomley was a student at the University of Warwick in England who led early Usenet campaigns in the first half of the 1990s, including opposition to the first spammers such as the Canter & Siegel Green Card spam and the notorious anti-Armenian Usenet spammer Serdar Argic (or Ahmet Cosar). He initiated calls for the first moderated Usenet group, soc.history.moderated[1] as a means of removing the vast number of zumabot-generated spams flooding it. He also claimed to have the highest kibo number 1 in Britain. Bottomley later developed cybercafes and became a leading UK public-sector internet consultant and content management specialist.
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Riled by Usenet kibology - fans of James "Kibo" Parry, such as James Bottomley, Argic invented petnames for them, dubbing Bottomley for example "Bottomless of Armenian Church Garbage", an epithet he continued to use for many months. Bottomley responded by collecting names from other Usenet "kooks" such as Parry ("Bottomlibo"), Ludwig Plutonium ("Bottomtotty Bottomseeker") and so on, seeking to make the ultimate set.
