In the days before the Internet, I was involved in "one of those situations," that exposed my phone number, name, address, etc to people on Fidonet, a network of BBSes around the world. I received a few death threats on my answering machine. I wrote a message to the bbs network that basically said anyone who wanted to try and kill me should bring the beers. We could have a few together, and then "tap dance." No one ever took me up on the invitation, then I changed my number to a non-published one eventually.