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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>kook</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="../K.html" title="K"/><link rel="previous" href="koan.html" title="koan"/><link rel="next" href="Kool-Aid.html" title="Kool-Aid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">kook</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="koan.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">K</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Kool-Aid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="kook"/><dt xmlns="" id="kook"><b>kook</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; originally and more formally, <span class="firstterm">net.kook</span>] Term used to describe a regular
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poster who continually posts messages with no apparent grounding in
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reality. Different from a <a href="../T/troll.html"><i class="glossterm">troll</i></a>, which implies a
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sort of sly wink on the part of a poster who knows better, kooks really
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believe what they write, to the extent that they believe anything.</p><p>The kook trademark is paranoia and grandiosity. Kooks will often
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build up elaborate imaginary support structures, fake corporations and the
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like, and continue to act as if those things are real even after their
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falsity has been documented in public.</p><p>While they may appear harmless, and are usually filtered out by the
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other regular participants in a newsgroup of mailing list, they can still
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cause problems because the necessity for these measures is not immediately
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apparent to newcomers; there are several instances on record, for example,
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of journalists writing stories with quotes from kooks who caught them
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unaware.</p><p>An entertaining web page chronicling the activities of many notable
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kooks can be found at <a href="http://www.crank.net/usenet.html" target="_top">http://www.crank.net/usenet.html</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="koan.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../K.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Kool-Aid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">koan<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Kool-Aid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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