verizon.net is listed at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ for having no operational postmaster@, which is strange, because usually a non-functional abuse@ comes first (security@ is not operational, either, apparently, no replies, not even auto). Assuming that I can believe ALL of the edit summaries...Maybe Grawp can get a public mischief rap. I'll check Virginia's law book.
Verizon's phone number is a one-way message saying very little other than introducing you to security@ for things other than spam, so that leaves their snail mail address and blocking their whole netblock. Hopefully, their own users will complain to someone who answers at verizon. Can't make that much noise, myself...just hope that either Durova or Carcharoth is reading me.
Don't hold your breath for getting this done in formalities before Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas. Blocking the netblock can be done in short order, physically, and there might be rules against it. Verizon has over 65536 addresses, though, so I don't think blocking one number at a time is a sensible use of human time. Some judges lean towards Anne Landers when she said "No one can abuse you without your permission.".
----- Original Message ----- From: "William King" williamcarlking@gmail.com To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:16 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp
Looks like the self-described "small giant" (Grawp) was doing his thing this morning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/V2score
Time in a jail cell should be the ultimate Christmas/Hanukkah present for Grawp.
William King (Willking1979)
From: "William King" williamcarlking@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 7:14 PM To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp
I strongly agree. Something must be done very soon. I noticed just in the past hour or so on RC patrol, Grawp harassed a few more users.
William King (Willking1979)
From: "Durova" nadezhda.durova@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 5:24 PM To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp
There would be no shortage of people to sign a petition to the ISP, if you want to go that route. This has gone on long enough.
-Durova
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:19 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard@gmail.com
wrote:
2008/12/11 Fran Rogers fran@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?
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