My god @cstross is here.

We haven't been in the same cyber space since he was #antipope

I hope he doesn't mind me reviving that nick. He used to inhabit some of the same spaces on usenet I did.

Mainly the alt groups if I remember? I used Xs4all. I don't know which provider he used.

The rebel provider of the time was #Altopia. So that's my guess.