[Imc-aotearoa-ed] victor . . .

[finn c.]

Hi

>                         And, to cap the day off, it seems Victor has 
> finally made contact. I assume he got my contact details off the Akld 
> contact subpage on the indysite, and I got a phonecall asking for a fax 
> number. The person did not identify themselves (I asked), but said they 
> wanted an article removed, and needed a fax because he had no e-mail 
> access and was overseas (???)...

Jeez . . . he's got some arrogance eh . .  spamming us for several months and then asking us to fix his typos. I'm getting close to asking that he be banned from posting on the site altogether . . . it's not like he doesn't realise he's a total spammer. I had a look around several other indy's and open publishing sites and he's been don the same over the last 3 days.
 
> ``Please remove (star in a circle symbol) as I have made an error's with 
> out my glasses
>     A. Adams''

misspelt 666 maybe :-)

> This raises an interesting issue - we have no way of verifying if the 
> person who faxed me is the author of either article or comments, so what 
> do we do? I would suggest that if the author (or anyone) feels there is 
> a mistake in the two comments they should post another comment 
> correcting the mistake (actually, the fax shows small typo corrections - 
> so I don;t think A Adams has a substantial complaint about the comments 
> - one of wbich is essentially frivolous anyway).

Yup, leave it up to the author, unless it can be verified ie we actually know the person that emailed us. To easy to get messed around with countelpro type tactics.

finn