From: Denis McKeon (DMckeon@swcp.com)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 13:17:46 CDT
In < >,
mjcr < > wrote:
... [ most of troll chase 'tale of woe' deleted ]
>Latter when when he got bolder, he started attaching other people's email
>addresses, with spam proctection removed, to his sig as though they were
>his addressed. Since his headers did not contain a valid email address, a
>number of individuals sent email complaining of his actions to the email
>address in his sig. Two people found that abuse complaints was filed
>against them by people who thought that the email address was his. One
>person had his account suspended by his ISP for a while because of those
>complaints. All the time he was using the X-No-Archive header and because
>of it, he thought his misdeeds could not be proven after a week of their
>posting, what he claimed his ISP's expire was set at.
People could have chosen to create their own archives of the groups or
threads containing his posts, traced the posts to their source, and
complained to the poster's ISP(s?), with pointers to their archive(s).
Would the poster's ISP would respond? Would it choose to believe the
people complaining or the ISP's customer? YMMV.
In any case, does Google have a responsibility to help chase trolls?
Consider how much work *that* role could develop into....
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