Adam Kerman is a Chicago guy who's been on the internet since the BBS
days, posting from Chinet rCo Randy Suess's legendary system that traces
back to the first-ever BBS in 1978. He's been a fixture on Usenet for decades.
In real life, he does bookkeeping and tax work for small nonprofits.
He's involved with the Henry George School of Social Science in Chicago, where he teaches and serves as treasurer. He also runs the Transit
Riders' Authority, a transit advocacy group he started in 1992, and has
been on the Pace bus advisory board since 2005. The Georgist-to-transit pipeline makes sense rCo Georgists believe public transit creates land
value that should be taxed to fund more transit.
On Usenet, he's a completely different animal. He posts constantly,
speaks as if he runs the place, and has no actual authority over
anything. In 2001 he mass-crossposted messages declaring himself "your
new god" and "your new ruler" of Usenet. He's been nominated for Usenet
Kook Awards multiple times, and people dislike him enough that two
newsgroups were created just to mock him:
alt.idiot.adam-h-kerman and alt.adam-h-kerman.config.
The connection between his online and offline identities is confirmed
through his Transit Riders' Authority website being hosted on
chinet.com, and his Henry George School author page using "ahk" as his handle.
His phone number is easy to find if you would like to congradulate Adam
on his long run on usenet and retirment.
I found his number on a gay bathhouse toilet seat.
On 30 Mar 2026, Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> posted some news:slrn10sm5rl.odc1.tommix@devnull.org:
Adam Kerman is a Chicago guy who's been on the internet since the BBS
days, posting from Chinet rCo Randy Suess's legendary system that traces back to the first-ever BBS in 1978. He's been a fixture on Usenet for decades.
In real life, he does bookkeeping and tax work for small nonprofits.
He's involved with the Henry George School of Social Science in Chicago, where he teaches and serves as treasurer. He also runs the Transit
Riders' Authority, a transit advocacy group he started in 1992, and has been on the Pace bus advisory board since 2005. The Georgist-to-transit pipeline makes sense rCo Georgists believe public transit creates land value that should be taxed to fund more transit.
On Usenet, he's a completely different animal. He posts constantly,
speaks as if he runs the place, and has no actual authority over
anything. In 2001 he mass-crossposted messages declaring himself "your
new god" and "your new ruler" of Usenet. He's been nominated for Usenet Kook Awards multiple times, and people dislike him enough that two newsgroups were created just to mock him:
alt.idiot.adam-h-kerman and alt.adam-h-kerman.config.
The connection between his online and offline identities is confirmed through his Transit Riders' Authority website being hosted on
chinet.com, and his Henry George School author page using "ahk" as his handle.
His phone number is easy to find if you would like to congradulate Adam
on his long run on usenet and retirment.
I found his number on a gay bathhouse toilet seat.
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