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Mr. Bill,

you should go to the authorities and register a complaint.

the attack on sunhelp.org is a dos attack.  while it might not be
effective enough to shutdown your connection, it is taking time (human
and machine--your server, my workstation, yahoo's email service,
routers, etc.), energy (human and electric), bandwidth, etc. from the
normal and accepted use of your website, mailserver, etc.  

remember, just because something is "free" does not mean it lacks
value.  the sunhelp.org mailing lists are valuable to people throughout
the world (eg. craig of veritas in australia).

while there is not a "threat" or "profanity", the harrassment is
substantial since this has continued over four years.  at some point, i
would think that the phrase, "he's a fat guy", would meet the legal
criteria of indecent, taunting, descriminatory speech.  

registering a complaint and escalating the works with the government
authorities works.

your district attorney, a free legal organization, the university of
texas law school, etc. can provide help.

a simple request would bring hundreds of people will to provide
evidence on your behalf concerning your character, your service to the
community, etc., etc.

hth,

hm

--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:12:59PM -0500, Fred Dikeman wrote:
> > Do you know their names?
> 
> Yes.  At least one of them, the guy that started it all.
> 
> Most recently, one of "them" went into a channel on a large IRC
> network
> and just told a bunch of people "hey connect to this guy's irc server
> and
> make fun of him and his wife, he's a fat guy".  That's the kind of
> crap I
> have to put up with.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> bill bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> austin, texas
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