[Cialug] OT: forum harassment

[Tony Bibbs]

His emails are simply saying he won't go away until I unban him...no 
real good threats yet, though, I'm guessing he'll eventually get to that 
point.

--Tony

David Champion wrote:
> Tony Bibbs wrote:
>> I run a lowly hunting and fishing website that has been around for 
>> nearly 6 years.  I've finally run into a situation where I had to ban 
>> a guy by IP for being an idiot (racist comments) and now he's simply 
>> hopping from PC to PC finding new IP's, creating new accounts and 
>> posting.
>>
>> This all materialized today, but my plan is to simply give this a few 
>> days to see if it dies down.  But in an effort of planning, are there 
>> any viable legal actions one can take?  I know who the guys is, just 
>> don't have anything I can really do.  My hunch is he will grow tired 
>> of it all, but what are my options if he doesn't?
>>
>> --Tony
> 
> (IANAL disclamer etc...)
> 
> I would guess that if you had a lawyer send him a Cease and Desist 
> letter, it would probably scare him enough to knock it off.
> 
> Depending on what kind of comments he's making, he could be breaking 
> various hate-crime laws, or if he's making threats he could be in 
> trouble for that too.
> 
> -dc
> 
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