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In article <37vic9$548@crl8.crl.com>, David A. Kaye <dk@crl.com> wrote:
>Milton Wong (wong0075@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
>: For the last two years, I have been subjected to constant harassment due 
>: to slander. My reputation and my life have been destroyed. Please help me 
>: put an end to the slander.
>
>First, you have to have a reputation in order to have it destroyed.  I 
>doubt that anyone knows who you are.  Maybe you're a legend in your own 
>mind, but I doubt you're a legend on the Internet.  Sorry to be the first 
>to bring you this news.

[this is a good discussion, but we should move this out of general]

Sorry, Mr. Kaye, but you may be the one being naive.  You don't have
to be well-known to have problems because of this type of garbage.
Several years back, as an undergrad, a hack here managed to break into
several people's accounts, including mine, and sent rude and insulting
messages from them.  One guy I knew asked me what was up with the
insults I was sending.  I didn't know what he was talking about and
didn't think about a security problem.  It wasn't until a couple of
years later that I ran into someone else who told me several people he
knew (whom I didn't know) never really found out about the break-in
but thought I was a jerk because they had gotten ugly messages.

I don't know what other people think, but I consider myself someone
who intends to have a career on these machines, a "computing
professional" if you will.  As such, I spend more time on the net than
most of the population (even most tech. professionals), and I expect
my colleagues and associates in my field to do the same.
Consequently, if I want a higher "hit ratio" for topics I want to
discuss with others, I go to net instead of U.S. mail or the
telephone.  So, for me, my net.personality is a non-trivial part of my
reputation since it's highly likely many people I have to deal with
are here.

                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.  USA