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[nolly]

<user>@mac.com has decided to harass me via email. 75 messages so far. Email to postmaster@mac.com and abuse@mac.com has gone unacknowledged. <user> is SoCal fandom's best-known psycho. Suggestions for further steps?

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dealing with kooks

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i guess one of my questions would be how descriptive your label is -- "psycho" means exactly what here? harassment is what? are there threats in the email? do you worry that zie is gonna escalate into meatspace?

my own experience with kooks has been that ignoring them, even when harassed, works best for me. i can delete email or gate it straight to /dev/null, but while i am all for hunting down spammers and getting their accounts revoked, kooks are a different story. one might get such a person really going ballistic if such actions succeed -- and accounts are a dime a dozen, really, so zie'll be back.

kooks are also a different story because, well, they are sick, you know? unless my actions can get them treatment, or reliably protect me, what's the point?

-piranha (sorry to hear you're having such troubles, that really sucks)

Re: dealing with kooks

[nolly.livejournal.com]

In this case, I mean that zie is, IMO, a textbook borderline personality. Completely unpredictable. More explosive than the Katie Ka-Boom character from Animaniacs. The email isn't threatening, just annoying -- 81 messages over 6 days. (More have come in since I first posted.) One side of me knows ignoring zir is the best I can do; another sides hates to see zir "get away with it".

I'm generally able to avoid zir in meatspace; zie has moved from my immediate local area to the next county north, so I only see zir at the occasional con.