Guest guest Posted November 18, 2000 Report Share Posted November 18, 2000 Dear Nedra: Don't tolerate LT's pollution and harrassment. Make your own decision. Knowledge is power. We're all here for help and support. Safe journey, Vivi abuse > Dr R and Blair, > > I just found out something interesting. It seems that all ISPs have a abuse > policy and if anybody complains that one of their customers is harassing them, > they will warn the person, and if repeated complaints are received, that > person will be thrown off the ISP. > > Thus, I think that LT can be stopped from sending her harassing messages to > all the members of the Mini-gastric bypass list. Here's how: > > 1. Have Dr Rutledge or someone speaking for him (a co-moderator, whatever) > post a message publically on the list, requesting that LT not write emails to > any member of the Mini Gastric bypass mailing list. > > 2. As soon as LT writes someone, that person should take the public message > requesting LT not to write and the email from LT and send to the address > below, complaining that LT (lindat@...) is harassing them: > > abuse@... > > 3. Mindspring will warn LT to stop and if there is a repeated instance of her > sending more unwanted email, Mindspring will dump her as a customer. > > I have heard that Mindspring is especially strict about this policy. > > Also, it's a safe action because if the complainent requests that LT not be > told their name, the ISP will respect this. So LT will not know who complained > because she has sent so many harassing emails. > > In this way, her harassment of the members of the Mini-Gastric Bypass group > should either stop or else she'll get booted from Mindspring. > > Perhaps the above information can be distributed to new members of the > Mini-Gastric bypass list as they join the list. Right now, the Mini-gastric > bypass mailing list being closed due to the harassment of one person has hurt > people who wish to join to find out more about the MGB but may not want to > give all their info (like ss #) if just in research mode. Also, from a few > posts on the (so-called) MGB-truth mailing list, I have seen that people have > selected other types of surgery because of harassing and untrue emails sent > them by LT. It's probably time someone took some steps to halt LT's > inappropriate actions and this seems one good step (there may be others). > > I know this will work because she complained that my messages disagreeing with > her slander of Dr Rutledge were harassing her, and my provider gave me a > warning, and it didn't matter that the content of my messages was not > inappropriate - nothing mattered but one person had complained. Perhaps my > negative experience can be turned into a positive and this same rule can be > used to stop LT from sending harassing messages to members of the Mini-Gastric > Bypass list. > > The regulation this falls under is evidentally, RFC2143. > > respectfully, > Sue Widemark > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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