From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:41:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copper.americanisp.net (copper.americanisp.net [208.244.174.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D7C537B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16874 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2000 16:41:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO oxygen.americanisp.net) (208.244.174.10) by copper.americanisp.net with SMTP; 9 Nov 2000 16:41:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:40:37 -0700 (MST) From: Peter To: Steve Leibel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abusive e-mail message In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wonder how many abusive letters she is going to get now :) But seriously lay off the crack pipe and lighten up a little, there are a-holes in cyberspace but a)you can't sue them all b)If it offends you don't read them c) Do you also try and sue everyone on the street that looks at you funny or you think they are undressing you with their eyes? *some people definitely need a vacation or really lighten up* "I want to buy a husband who, every week when I sit down to watch `St. Elsewhere', won't scream, `FORGET IT, BLANCHE ... IT'S TIME FOR "HEE HAW"!!'" -- Berke Breathed, "Bloom County" --- www.nul.cjb.net --- The Power to Crash! --- www.FreeBSD.org --- The Power to Serve! On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Steve Leibel wrote: > At 10:18 AM -0600 11/9/00, Richard Western wrote: > >Dear BSD: > >I am writing this letter in regard to an e-mail message that I > >received that was very abusive. I have had no positive response > >from the many search attempts that I have contacted. I feel I may > >know who the sender is, and in my wait and communications I have > >found that this sender has also abused another beyond belief. I > >find this kind of behavior to be very upsetting, in that someone can > >do such a thing through their e-mail service and not be identified. > >I do intend to take legal action in the event I can positively > >identify this sender, as it is totally unacceptable behavior and is > >very deserving of some kind of legal consequence. Please let me > >know if you can possibly assist me in regard to this matter and I > >will be more than willing to forward the message that I received and > >can assure you that the other party in receipt of messages from this > >sender will be more than willing to do the same. Your anticipated > >cooperation is very much appreciated. Please respond to > >kwestern1@yahoo.com > >Sincerely, > >Kimberly K. Western > > > If you have the full headers of the email message you can probably > trace the sender with a court order, unless they are properly > anonymized. > > Short of that, unless you are being harassed or threatened, you > should probably just let it go. There are a lot of a-holes in > cyberspace, you can't spend your life suing them all. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message