Usenet personality
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A Usenet personality is an individual who has gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet. Since its inception, Usenet has attracted a wide variety of people posting all manner of fact, fiction, theories, opinions, and beliefs. While "notability" is a highly subjective notion, some Usenet posters have achieved a certain amount of fame (or infamy) within Usenet circles because of their unusual non-mainstream ideas or because their posts are considered especially humorous or bizarre.
Eccentric personalities
These individuals (or user-IDs) are noted for their eccentric beliefs and theories, and may even be considered by some to be kooks or cranks.
- Richard Bullis — Named as "Clueless Eternal Newbie" on alt.usenet.kooks.
- Earl Curley — Named as "Kook of the Century" on alt.usenet.kooks.
- John Grubor — Named as "Kook of the Century and Decade" on alt.usenet.kooks.
- Brad Jesness — Named as "Kook of the Decade" on alt.usenet.kooks.
- Archimedes Plutonium — Noted for his "Plutonium Atom Totality" theory, which posits that the universe is a giant plutonium atom. He states that the cosmic atom must be plutonium in order to explain the values of certain physical and mathematical constants.
- Barbara Schwarz — Member of the Church of Scientology who claimed to be the daughter of L. Ron Hubbard.
- Sollog — Self-proclaimed psychic. Though not a Usenet poster himself, many of his supporters and apologists have posted using his name.
- Edmond Wollmann — Named as "Kook of the Millennium" on alt.usenet.kooks.
Other unusual personalities
These are individuals (or user-IDs) that are unusual for reasons other than being eccentric.
- Kibo — User-ID of James Parry, who provided the basis for formation of an entire newsgroup, alt.religion.kibology.
- Mark V Shaney — A fake user-ID used by an automated program that used Markov chain logic to recombine the text of posts into nearly coherent posts.