17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
If he starts flooding the newsgroups, what can we do about it? If he starts forging mail from other people, he's committing a crime and we can get his system administrators to pull his account. Perry
I don't think you can strictly call it a crime, just abusive rudeness, though if you did something like that in Detweiler-space, it might classify you as a Tentaculer Traitor to Humankind. However, sufficient levels of abuse can get you kicked off systems; though he's been posting lots of verbose human-generated messages rather than mechanized mailbombs, which are clearly over the edge. And he's been mailbombed directly by other rude people; don't know if he's done it to anyone himself.