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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Eric Conspiracy</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="era.html" title="era"/><link rel="next" href="Eris.html" title="Eris"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Eric Conspiracy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="era.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Eris.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Eric-Conspiracy"/><dt xmlns="" id="Eric-Conspiracy"><b>Eric Conspiracy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed
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as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous <tt class="systemitem">talk.bizarre</tt> posting ca. 1987; this was
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doubtless influenced by the numerous ‘Eric’ jokes in the Monty
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Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed
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Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for
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unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include
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Eric Allman (he of the ‘Allman style’ described under
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<a href="../I/indent-style.html"><i class="glossterm">indent style</i></a>) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP);
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your editor has heard from more than a hundred others by email, and the
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organization line ‘Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories’ now
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emanates regularly from more than one site. See the Eric Conspiracy Web
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Page at <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/" target="_top">http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/</a> for full
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details.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="era.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Eris.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">era<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Eris</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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