1. Eric Conspiracy humour> A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk. bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman of the "Allman style" described under indent style, Erik Fair co-author of NNTP, Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site. [Jargon File]
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