Anita, I had a similar experience except that I was stalked by a group who did about the same thing on the net or were incited to do something similar:libelous and slanderous statements etc. The only thing is I never retaliated nor even knew very much how to reply because they working from false information which was not available to me. I will be interested to find out how your lawyers approach it. If you want to reply privately please feel free. What I was preparing was quite different and somewhat complicated as there wer the traditional things inolved real money, violence, obstruction of justice, acts of international terrorism, attempts opn my life those of others around me, heads of state involved in projects Iwas working on and violation of international banking law. That is why while my particular case was tangentally related to what seems to be happening to you and others, it was not a good example because there was a lot of international politics involved which was making the case much more complicated. I would like to see what a simple case without the violence and overkill of the kind of violence that brought death threats against Perot and his family from Cuban death squads. One interesting thing would be to discover how these lesser militant groups are all coordinated. I will be able to do that and yet might end up finding your net.kook's name on that list and that what he was doing wsa not just a prank but a deliberately destructive act of terror. I beleive that I know how net subscriptions scam worked: it produced paranoia in our growing awareness of net functions so that we would come to mistruct the "from" lines and stop investigating the peculiar incidents on the net. -- Paul. -- Dr. Paul S. di Virgilio, University of Toronto [log in to unmask]