Mason opened this issue on Aug 20, 2002 ยท 21 posts
Penguinisto posted Wed, 21 August 2002 at 9:22 AM
LOL - I remember back in the days of rs.internic.net! As the owner of spark.org at the time, a HUGE flame-based site, I listed the address to the main campus bldg. of the University of Arkansas, the phone number to the local library, and the admin@spark.org email addy simply diverted to /dev/null before it could even get past procmail at my ISP. Like Ron said - the last thing you need is some humiliated punk showing up at your door wanting to kick yer butt over something that got said online. Oh, and the threats are real easy to deal with - I would trace their personal info as much as possible and include their home address and phone number in my reply, then ask if I could call them over the phone and discuss it with them. You'd be amazed at how quick someone decides not to follow up on their threats once they discover that they're not anonymous any longer. Besides, 99.9% of email threats are all bluff and bluster anyhow, and none of the threats I recieved had ever been followed up on in e-mail, let alone in real life. Had it rigged for three years like that, with nary a complaint from the InterNIC. /P