[IMC-bristol] Posionous Emails and Solutions

[Tom Merchant]

Did you know this list is being archived publicly? I
found it by accident on google.

James Venables:
>means that I receive huge quantities of poisonous
>mail, & 
>unknown amount of poisonous mail is also put out
>under my name.

You can trace these emails back. If you have, say, a
death threat you can approach the company hosting that
emailer's address warning them of dire legal
consequences and requiring their client's name and
address so you can sue them. Once you have it you can
scare the shit out of them. 

For example

Dear X of X Road, Xhampton,

Thank you for your death threat your
dad/mum/police/boss/girlfriend are about to be
notified of your behaviour, etc. 

Urban75.com used to have a great page showing the
poisonous email and then the snivelling and crawling
of the person caught out begging not to be exposed any
further.

If the email address is hosted with someone like
hotmail or yahoo and anonymous, Hotmail/yahoo will
still have IP info and you can use that to trace them
back to the people who connect the poisoner's PC to
the internet (an ISP) who will have at least a phone
number.

This would only work with serious breaches of the law
where companies can be threatened enough to disclose
personal information. Death threats, incitement to
racial hatred, threats of rape or arson, etc.

I haven't done this myself (I've never received
anything quite as bad as a death threat) but this is
how it works. It won't work, however, if your poisoner
has understanding of some quite basic web programming
and chooses to disguise himself, or worse pretend to
be someone else. That's a lot more complicated.

By the way you should be able to do this with posts to
BIMC if you can get hold of the IP.

However as urban75 is pretty much a kissing cousin of
BIMC I'm sure they would tell you how they did it.

Cheers,
Tom

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