Wed, 22 Oct 1997 02:02:04 +0200
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:49:20 EDT Maureen Leblanc
<[log in to unmask]> said:
>>I could probably get his account closed for X days, but what would this
>>accomplish?
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>It would inconvenience the jerk. That's better than nothing.
Maybe, but it isn't worth my time. It's not just the time of getting the
account closed, it's the petty war it leads to. I annoy you, you annoy
me, you threaten to annoy me more, I threaten to annoy you more, I annoy
you more, you annoy me more, etc. I just don't have the time or patience
for this. When people annoy me, they usually get away with it until they
REALLY annoy me. Then they are sorry to have made the incorrect
assumption that I could be harassed endlessly and would never hit back.
This saves all the little wasteful steps.
>I think this person crossed a line and should be inconvenienced by
>having to get a new account somewhere else. If (s)he does the same thing
>at another account, then that account ought to be pulled too.
Yes, well, this can go on for a while and lead nowhere.
>This happens to spammers all the time. Their accounts get pulled
>repeatedly for spamming.
Are there statistics on the aggregated number of hours of sleep that the
spam community has lost over this? ;-)
>aol.com can't require its membership to have ... *taste* or good
>*judgement* or whatever your favorite term for what this person
>lacks might be, but can't it require its members to be legal?
Have you reported her to the police? What do you have to show that she
has done something illegal? How can you expect AOL to believe you if you
don't have any piece of paper to show for it?
>Where is the outrage (or is it common sense?) that would allow a
>provider like aol to say: "You've gone too far.
Lawyers ate it for breakfast :-)
>At least my husband and I know who to go after if I'm hit again and the
>person who did it gets away again: This person and aol.
In what way is AOL responsible for that? Or the company that provided the
phone with which they called the thug?
Eric
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