On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2008/12/11 Fran Rogers <f...@nutmeg.ws>: > > Personally, I'm utterly bamboozled. This kid is nineteen years old and in > > college; he's an adult, and he has his entire life ahead of him. Yet he > > still continues to anonymously threaten and harass people on the > Internet, > > even though he's clearly stepped into illegal territory, his identity is > > known along with reams of evidence of his misdeeds connecting them to > him, > > and his parent upon whom he's still dependent has been alerted. And he > still > > soldiers on, using Mom's broadband to move pages on Wikipedia to titles > "I > > will rape and murder (insert admin here)." What could possibly be running > > through his mind? And how can he be stopped? > > If he's making threats of violence and stalking then you should > contact his local police. They'll probably at least discuss it with > him and he'll either stop or eventually criminal proceedings will > occur. Doesn't sound like there's any other option. > > Forensic analysis of his computer could doubtless prove it was him > doing this, not his mother who shares the same IP. > > You could also contact his ISP. It puts them in a bad light to have > someone like that on their networks and nearly always violates T&C- > they might well want to terminate his service. But he'll probably just > get another ISP; but depending on where he lives there might not be > many ISPs in his area. Perhaps the Foundation could send a cease-and-desist letter to both her and him, cc the ISP? -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
