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Ophelia[_4_]

"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> Enzo Matrix wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>>> Charlotte L. Blackmer wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> Little Malice > wrote:
>>>>> One time on Usenet, (Charlotte L. Blackmer)
>>>>> said:
>>>>>> In article >, Ophelia
>>>>>> > wrote: <snip>
>>>>>>> If you were being attacked in this way, how long could you
>>>>>>> restrain yourself from defending yourself?
>>>>>> Do a google groups search on my full name as a phrase - both with
>>>>>> and without the initial - and get back to me on that. I've had
>>>>>> one particular pet kook for over a dozen years now.
>>>>> Wow. I'm really sorry about that, Charlotte. I witnessed one death
>>>>> threat to a friend 12 years ago and it scared me enough to stop
>>>>> using my legal last name. I can't imagine what you've been through.
>>>>> I feel sort of cowardly now...
>>>> You know, I would never think you were. There are a lot of good
>>>> reasons to use pseudonyms, as I well know. Anyway, sometimes I am
>>>> too damn stubborn for my own good . There are plenty of people
>>>> using screen names who are "present as themselves" and not doing
>>>> anything
>>>> that would qualify as "hiding behind a keyboard". That last is, of
>>>> course, a sad fact of internet life - it's a true mark of character
>>>> to see what someone does when s/he is assured of being able to "get
>>>> away with it", and many people on the Net fail that particular test.
>>>>
>>>> In places with a good tradition of offline social interaction (like
>>>> RFC!), there's less of that nonsense. Long-term also helps.
>>>>
>>>> (Mind you, Asshats Hiding Behind Keyboards are the reason that
>>>> moderated web fora are so popular these days. I think most of them
>>>> have taken to drive-by comments on blogs, or on news sites these
>>>> days.) If my kooks weren't basically cowards, I would have done the
>>>> following: 1) filed a police report
>>>> 2) change accounts and disappear for a while
>>>> 3) target practice for self-defense
>>>>
>>>> Now the thing I won't go anywhere near these days is posting from a
>>>> work account or through an employer's system (and that counts posting
>>>> through Google Groups). When I was first on usenet, I was on a
>>>> company account. (It was early days, so there was no AUP then. But
>>>> I will note that I was often there evenings doing system work.) It
>>>> was, however, scary when I acquired StalkerBoy by the simple
>>>> expedient of turning down his request for a date - he knew where I
>>>> worked. In later days, I have become one of those people who sets up
>>>> that
>>>> sort of infrastructure at the office and investigates abuse reports,
>>>> so I so don't want to go there.
>>>>
>>>> ObFood: Will read and interpret Internet headers for it.
>>>>
>>>> Charlotte
>>>>
>>>>
>>> About 8 or 9 years ago an elderly woman who was a member of a mailing
>>> list I used to run decided she was going to "get" me. Lots of foul
>>> language, threats, etc. Banned her from the mailing list, started
>>> getting emails direct. Finally called the police where she lived and
>>> filed a complaint of stalking. In a few days they called me, had
>>> arrested her, she was undergoing psychiatric testing. Ultimately they
>>> let me know she had been hospitalized and was being treated for
>>> schizophrenia. Some folks on the internet truly are kooks. Anyway I
>>> never heard from her again and have no idea of the ultimate results of
>>> her hospitalization.
>>
>> I would say you behaved responsibly and in fact acted in her best
>> interests.
>>
> Thank you, others on that same mailing list thought I was cruel. Luckily
> for them none of them decided to stalk me too. <BSEG>

Well I don't think you were cruel. I am seriously thinking of taking my
little stalker to the police.