At 3:29 AM 8/19/96, Alan Horowitz wrote:
I suspect they are trying to get a judgement against "John Doe", in the hopes of tracking him down later.
Actually, if I had a sizeable judgement against such a John Doe, I could probably find a private detective who would find the dude for a contingent fee. Wow, a whole new class of factoring (commerce definition) opens up. Get me a lawyer....
Since the messages were sent from an AoL account, I would assume that a simple court order would be all that would be needed to force/require AoL to release the billing-address records for the account. That would allow CS First Boston to name the defendant. Refusal by AoL would just force CS First Boston to add AoL as a co-defendant (until they supply the name/info).