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Just Plain Insane aka Todd Behrmann: a study in compulsive USENET trolling
Foo wrote in
: On 22 Aug 2003 13:46:00 GMT, PROCKET (King Mondo) wrote: He threatens to tell and or sue my parents over me. He claims that AOL has givenhim my home address. He also claims that AOL has given his the master screen name to my account Let me assure you that he does not have *any* access to your home address or your master screen name based on your AOL address. He cannot possibly get any of that information that way. He cannot contact your parents or determine *anything* about you from your AOL address (other than whatever he can figure out from web site you have linked in your AOL profile). And AOL would NEVER give out any information about you themselves, much less the insanely private information this dim bulb claims to have. They'd be sued in a haeratbeat for that, and they don't like getting sued. So don't believe his hollow threats. Actually, a group I frequent did exactly that to a teen troll a few years ago. As a web site and mail server administrator for 10 years (as well as working several years as customer service for an "online service" similar to AOL), I can promise you that this guy's threats are completely hollow and you have absolutely nothing to worry about. He doesn't have any information about you that is not in your USENET headers or your AOL profile, which is why he can't come up with that master screen name he claims to have. So unless you have posted more information about yourself somewhere else online, don't worry about him. This is just another sad attempt by a sad man to hassle someone weaker and more inexperienced than he is, banking on the fact that they are not aware of what is and is not possible on the Internet. It's a classic tactic for mental midgets like our dear friend Todd Behrmann to stretch the truth so far that it becomes ridiculous, which is exactly what he's done here. Mondo, I know that you're going to play nice when you're on USENET now that you know better. I'm sorry that a clown like Todd has chosen you to hassle, but the Internet can be a rough place. People often make mistakes when they are new to something, and Todd counts on that for his entertainment. All you can do now is try harder to be a better participant since you know more now about how the game works. Just ignore/avoid losers like Todd, because if you let them see that they are getting to you, they win. And unlike Todd, I suspect I can count on you to learn from the experience and become a better netizen. I hope so. Peace. |
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