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Eric Conspiracy
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n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a
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sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was
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doubtless influenced by the numerous Eric jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre.
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There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom
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than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are
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correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he
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of the Allman style described under indent style ) and Erik Fair (co-author
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of NNTP); your editor has heard from more than a hundred others by email,
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and the organization line Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories now emanates
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regularly from more than one site. See the Eric Conspiracy Web Page at
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/ for full details.
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